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Re:Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes must go to prison while... by zx8080 on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @12:37AM (#35971297)
The "money is power" is not just a nice phrase from books. Money is power over how much effort others will spend to solve the problems of those who pays the money. So it's literally power.

However there're also other ways to control others to solve problems involuntarily.

Exploitation is the area in which the civilization is exceptionally strong.

So yes, starting from some level of money and power it's pretty easy to get away with proportinally more and more with the money and power increase.

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Re:Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes must go to prison while... by NicoJuicy on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @12:45AM (#35971335)
> it's pretty easy to get away with proportinally more and more with the money and power increase

The power/money creates a inbalance with the punishment ( it has less side effects to do it). Either by people being influenced of your status or the fine not being relational to your wealth.

Untill you overdo it, which may be the situation with the previous president.

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