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chris_va on Oct 6, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Most Important Thing: Decline in poverty, illi...

Not really, it is mostly just more media coverage and observation bias.

As an example, it used to be that you could just dump whatever you wanted into the local water table. Now everything is picked over with a fine comb.

MaysonL on Oct 6, 2015 [–]

Contrast the treatment of bank executives after the S&L crisis, and after the recent financial crisis. They got away with murder (not quite literally) this time.

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