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> plenty of companies are run by criminals

Another blanket statement with zero supporting fact at the beginning of an argument.




Literally any of the recent(past 10 years) VC fueled startups whose main innovation was breaking the law too fast for the government to stop? You think Uber, Lyft, Zenefits, all the scooter companies who use public property to store their fleet, etc aren't being run by criminals?

Edit: and that's before we get into the more etablished companies commiting crimes like Enron's accounting fraud, Boeing's attempts to circumvent safety regulations, HSBC modifying their teller windows to the size of the money drops from cartels so they could speed up the money laundering


BP, Volkswagen, many chemical consortiums... to name a few. :)


BP?




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