Every day corporation do something worse and worse and they wind up paying less and less in fines

You want fines? Start at 100% of what they gained from their misdeeds

And if corporations are people then punish them like people. Corporate death penalty (judicial dissolution) for the worst offenders

When the punishment for a crime is a fine then the laws only apply to the poor.

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If Trump’s trial is delayed until after the election, American democracy is toast.

And it’s a national disgrace that he hasn’t yet been indicted over J6. Merrick Garland and Chris Wray have either been complicit, or incompetent, in their lack of urgency to investigate him. There need to be consequences for that.

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Good follows: @emptywheel, @Teri_Kanefield, @wendysiegelman, @GottaLaff, @pbump, @dangillmor, @taylorlorenz, @w7voa, @chrisgeidner, @QasimRashid, @heidilifeldman, @rbreich, @lawfare, @maxkennerly, @fulelo, @marcelias, @uspolitics, @ProPublica, @icymi_law

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So, essentially, the research described below shows that income disparity leading to inequality is *not* a bug of capitalism, but a feature.

The system is working precisely as intended.
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A global study led by a researcher at Columbia University and published in the journal Scientific Reports finds that economic inequality on a social level cannot be explained by bad choices among the poor nor by good decisions among the rich. Poor decisions were the same across all income groups, including for people who have overcome poverty.

While economic inequality continues to rise within countries, efforts to address it have been largely ineffective, particularly those involving behavioral approaches. It has been often implied, but until now not tested, that choice patterns among low-income individuals may be a factor impeding behavioral interventions aimed at improving upward economic mobility.
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FULL STORY -- https://phys.org/news/2023-06-economic-inequality-individual-bad-choices.html

#Capitalism #Inequality

It astonishes me how many politically aware people are willing to jump to a site run by the same firm that provided the organizing and propaganda platform for genocide in Myanmar.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.