Empty Mansions: Don’t be old and rich in New York City

Re:Empty Mansions: Don’t be old and rich in New York City by mikeash on Monday November 25, 2013 @03:27PM (#6796715)

There is a vast gulf that exists between working for free and blatantly defrauding your patients. Most of humanity lives within that gulf. From your tone, I suspect you may not.

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Re:Empty Mansions: Don’t be old and rich in New York City by fleitz on Monday November 25, 2013 @03:35PM (#6796789)

From the sounds of the article everything they did was legal...

Just as her father buying his senate seat was... Just as the various ways in which Montana copper mine strikes were dealt with, just as the way Montana came to become a state.

I suspect you may be uncomfortable with the moral foundations of US law and how that country and its wealth came to be as well as the legal means by which one may acquire wealth in the United States.

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Re:Empty Mansions: Don’t be old and rich in New York City by pstuart on Monday November 25, 2013 @03:47PM (#6796866)

Just because it was legal doesn't make it moral.

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Re:Empty Mansions: Don’t be old and rich in New York City by mikeash on Monday November 25, 2013 @04:45PM (#6797288)

Really? Fraud is simply lying for gain. I see a ton of that in the article. Maybe it hasn't been prosecuted, but that doesn't make it legal.

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Re:Empty Mansions: Don’t be old and rich in New York City by prawn on Monday November 25, 2013 @05:49PM (#6797664)

You're speaking of her father's indiscretions, not hers.

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Re:Empty Mansions: Don’t be old and rich in New York City by fleitz on Monday November 25, 2013 @07:00PM (#6798047)

Ahh yes, the "I didn't know this stereo i got for free was stolen execuse"

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