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A comment on America’s new tobacco crisis: The rich stopped smoking, the poor didn’t. Parent comment

Re:America’s new tobacco crisis: The rich stopped smoking, t... by AlexandrB on Friday June 16, 2017 @10:16AM (#14569164)
The difference is when poor people screw up, they suffer, when rich people screw up everyone else suffers [1][2][3][4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007–2008

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Mayer#Yahoo

[3] http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/08/technology/business/yahoo-ve...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron#California.27s_deregulat...

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