Cynicism about corporate accountability, regulation, oversight and legal consequences is a much larger concern than LLMs displacing people from what David Graeber would have called shitty jobs.
When I read a post that presumes that corporations are above the law and that it's a closed issue, I get sad. We can have nice things, but we must stop supporting governments that aggressively deregulate, prioritize mergers over public good, and compel their law enforcement to focus on hunting migrants instead of forcing corporations to pay taxes.
Talking about these systemic issues as though they are unsolvable because clearly corporations gonna corporation is maddening.
I don't understand why they don't jail corporate directors who are ultimately responsible for approving creative accounting tricks. If there's no penalty, of course they aren't going to do the right thing.
The greatest trick the devil can play in this era is convincing the public that their enemy is the least powerful people in society, not the most powerful.
At this point I think it's incumbent on those who defend the American system to provide evidence that their justice system is not pliable with wealth, that it is a meaningful threat to business and not simply an acceptable accounting risk.
How much do pardons go for these days? One to six million?
As Carney put it, the first and most important difference between the USA and Canada is that Canada enjoys the rule of law.
When I read a post that presumes that corporations are above the law and that it's a closed issue, I get sad. We can have nice things, but we must stop supporting governments that aggressively deregulate, prioritize mergers over public good, and compel their law enforcement to focus on hunting migrants instead of forcing corporations to pay taxes.
Talking about these systemic issues as though they are unsolvable because clearly corporations gonna corporation is maddening.
I don't understand why they don't jail corporate directors who are ultimately responsible for approving creative accounting tricks. If there's no penalty, of course they aren't going to do the right thing.
The greatest trick the devil can play in this era is convincing the public that their enemy is the least powerful people in society, not the most powerful.