• pyria@kbin.melroy.org
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    3 hours ago

    America is really bizarro world compared to other countries and how they handle things like this.

    It just seems like in America, you can fail upwards, con people and still get out filthy rich.

    • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      you can fail upwards, con people and still get out filthy rich.

      Only if you con the poors. If you con someone who’s rich or “powerful”, then you get punished.

    • yarr@feddit.nl
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      It’s only bizarre until you realize this isn’t a failure of the system. This is a success for the people getting the payout. They have lobbied and deeply infiltrated the government. The US government doesn’t serve the citizenry anymore. It serves the rich and powerful. The rest of us are just useful as consumers to funnel money to the corporations.