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Re:Netflix Executive Sentenced to 30 Months for 700K Bribes,... by jimkleiber on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:17PM (#29595999)
I guess for me it comes down to numbers. What does "fairly widespread" equate to? 50% of American corporate executives do this? 10%? 1%? Or are we talking about global executives at firms that net over $1B revenue per year?

It may seem nitpicky and yet I think the context and statistics matter—without it, I think we can fall into very binary discussions of people being corrupt or clean, bad or good.

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Re:Netflix Executive Sentenced to 30 Months for 700K Bribes,... by PragmaticPulp on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:28PM (#29596171)
> I guess for me it comes down to numbers. What does "fairly widespread" equate to?

Exactly. It's easy to search the internet internet for 10+ news stories about just about any bad behavior over the past decade, but that doesn't make it the norm.

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