[tbrownaw]

> the rich and powerful[1] face no consequences for wrongdoing.

Bernie Madoff. Jeff Epstein & Ghislane Maxwell. Sam Bankman-Fried. Elizabeth Holmes. Harvey Weinstein.

I get that sometimes you'll see things like Hunter Biden's tax issues being allowed to pass the statute of limitations, but a universal "the rich never face consequences" is just plain false.

[ryandrake]

You can always cherry pick a few counter examples to any argument without invalidating the typical case.

[lucianbr]

If you approach it with mathemathical universality, yes, it is false.

But what about "95% of the time 95% of the rich do not face consequences"? It's still a huge problem, and probably what the commenter meant.

[slt2021]

can you list how many financiers were jailed after 2008 GFC ?

can you find any?

can you list how many people were jailed for engineering SARS-CoV?

heck, government hasn't even acknowledge that it was engineered and still pushes fairy tale about bat infecting pangolin who infected a chain of few other animals and then ended up in wet market - but no signs of viruses in 1000 miles between caves and wet market were ever found

[hobs]

Well, disregarding the bankers - generally we require evidence to be presented in a court of law and then those findings to be found true for people to go to jail - repeating stuff you read on the internet doesn't really rise to that level.