Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement
by edgyquant on Saturday July 09, 2022 @12:21PM
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The rich don’t have a different set of laws they just have better lawyers.
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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement
by ModernMech on Saturday July 09, 2022 @01:24PM
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Any law that carries a fixed fine and no jailtime is a law that rich people can break with abandon, yet would ruin a poor person. A $50 parking ticket is a major burden for a person making minimum wage (essentially a day of their life to recoup that); whereas for a rich person their money makes that amount for them in less time than it took me to write this post.
Or, from another perspective: “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement
by lovich on Saturday July 09, 2022 @01:03PM
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And what provides for the rich to acquire better lawyers that can produce a better outcome but the laws? Why is everyone not provided a state defender rather than letting the rich purchase the best talent?