Re:Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook
by pmoriarty on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @01:12PM
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"They aren't, for the most part, doing anything illegal though. They are using the existing laws to their best advantage."
They and their cronies write the laws.
Where governments aren't amazingly corrupt and can just bribed outright, corporations spend millions of dollars on lobbyists to get favorable legislation, and corporate exec and government official positions are revolving doors where the one goes to work for the other all the time and the one serves the interests of the other.
When government officials retire they regularly get cushy, high paying jobs at the very companies they favored while in office. They also regularly invest in the very companies their laws and policies favor.
Not to mention that high government positions and corporate executive positions are both staffed by the wealthy who look after the interests of the wealthy: to stay wealthy and become even wealthier.
As Alan Moore observed recently, "while in the West after many years of arduous struggle we are now allowed to elect women, non-white people and even, surely at least in theory, people of openly alternative sexualities, I am relatively certain that we will never be allowed to elect a man or woman of any race or persuasion who is poor."[1]
They and their cronies write the laws.
Where governments aren't amazingly corrupt and can just bribed outright, corporations spend millions of dollars on lobbyists to get favorable legislation, and corporate exec and government official positions are revolving doors where the one goes to work for the other all the time and the one serves the interests of the other.
When government officials retire they regularly get cushy, high paying jobs at the very companies they favored while in office. They also regularly invest in the very companies their laws and policies favor.
Not to mention that high government positions and corporate executive positions are both staffed by the wealthy who look after the interests of the wealthy: to stay wealthy and become even wealthier.
As Alan Moore observed recently, "while in the West after many years of arduous struggle we are now allowed to elect women, non-white people and even, surely at least in theory, people of openly alternative sexualities, I am relatively certain that we will never be allowed to elect a man or woman of any race or persuasion who is poor."[1]
[1] - https://slovobooks.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/last-alan-moore-...