Re:Carlos Ghosn’s Brazen Escape from Japan
by exhilaration on Sunday August 07, 2022 @03:24PM
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The other side, according to Ghosn, wasn't the Japanese legal system -- it was other Nissan executives that weaponized the Japanese legal system against a foreigner. Still, I agree it's very much a case of infighting among the privileged.
Re:Carlos Ghosn’s Brazen Escape from Japan
by mrandish on Sunday August 07, 2022 @03:48PM
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I'd add that the Japanese political system was involved as well. It wasn't hard for the Nissan power players to align political support since there was already national pride and home-team loyalty at stake. The deck was definitely heavily stacked against Ghosn.
Re:Carlos Ghosn’s Brazen Escape from Japan
by ETH_start on Sunday August 07, 2022 @05:15PM
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>>one of the world's richest and most powerful people, the sort of person who does not (cannot) arrive at his station in life without being a special type of ruthless sociopath
Many people who become extraordinarily successful owe their success to their integrity and competence, not to ruthlessness or sociopathy.
This is especially true in advanced economies which became advanced largely because of somewhat meritocatic hierarchies that do a decent job of incentivizing and rewarding socially beneficial behavior.
This story can be understood as bickering between two factions or groups of "the man": on the one side the Japanese legal system, hardly a champion of the underdog; and on the other, one of the world's richest and most powerful people, the sort of person who does not (cannot) arrive at his station in life without being a special type of ruthless sociopath, whether they're guilty of literal crimes or not along the way.
So like it's a highly entertaining cage match, but rooting for one or the other if you're not also part of the ownership class is kinda a coin toss.