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Coming around to the way some countries treat public corruption as a capital crime. Like, maybe not death but life imprisonment & forfeiture of all assets & incomes related to the crimes of the accused (no family members, no friends, *nobody* keeps anything).

~*frantically searching to figure out exactly what percentage of a revolutionary society tends to be composed of overeducated, underemployed young people*~

Once again reiterating that I personally will never vote to convict anybody protecting themselves or their children from this state-sanctioned sexual assault. Furthermore, everyone should learn and spread the gospel of jury nullification.

At one point the promise of global free trade was specialization & optimal distribution based on natural resources, geography, & various paths of econ development. We all get rich by working together at what we're best at. Instead we got "jobs where labor is cheap, consumerism everywhere else."

Nearly every policy problem we have boils down to "this system—which was put into place explicitly to provide [public good]—operates on the profit motive even though markets are merely one imperfect mechanism of distribution & profit-seeking always undermines every other concern, even the law."

Like a lot of things, the problem comes down to the incentive to always maximize profit. Imagine a business selling 2 products. A is cheap low quality. B is more expensive & better produced. The *only thing* that matters to the business is profit. Everything else is on the buyer.

"We Let Trump Tell Us What To Write So He Can More Easily Manipulate Markets"