American justice, and who gets a safety net, is a horrible joke. Yesterday was an example of two-tiered justice - if you failed to pay 4,500 dollars debt gained “honestly” they’d seize your stuff and you might even go to prison. Make it literally 10,000 times worse (4.5k to 450 million) and fraud though and apparently you don’t have to worry about enforcement. There’s also no way you would get away with acting like Trump did in and out of court.
Once you’re rich for a while, the USA becomes a socialist paradise in which the nation will bend over backwards to make sure you don’t fail or suffer real consequences. It happened with the bank bailout in 2008, and now it’s happening again for Trump. The losses (i.e. bad business and evaded taxes) are public, the profits are private.
Gary Bowser wrote a blog about modding electronic devices, many of them Nintendo consoles. He made around $1,000 a month. He was put in prison and ordered to pay $14.5 million for violating Nintendo’s copyright. He worked a prison job and the money he earned went to his multi-million dollar debt. So far that is $175. I wonder why Gary couldn’t just say “oops can’t afford that! Maybe reduce it to $100,000? Thanks!”
American justice, and who gets a safety net, is a horrible joke. Yesterday was an example of two-tiered justice - if you failed to pay 4,500 dollars debt gained “honestly” they’d seize your stuff and you might even go to prison. Make it literally 10,000 times worse (4.5k to 450 million) and fraud though and apparently you don’t have to worry about enforcement. There’s also no way you would get away with acting like Trump did in and out of court.
Once you’re rich for a while, the USA becomes a socialist paradise in which the nation will bend over backwards to make sure you don’t fail or suffer real consequences. It happened with the bank bailout in 2008, and now it’s happening again for Trump. The losses (i.e. bad business and evaded taxes) are public, the profits are private.
Gary Bowser wrote a blog about modding electronic devices, many of them Nintendo consoles. He made around $1,000 a month. He was put in prison and ordered to pay $14.5 million for violating Nintendo’s copyright. He worked a prison job and the money he earned went to his multi-million dollar debt. So far that is $175. I wonder why Gary couldn’t just say “oops can’t afford that! Maybe reduce it to $100,000? Thanks!”