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Love this from @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/03/aoi-aoi-oh/#concentrated-gains-vast-diffused-losses

This emphasis on benefits cheating and indifference to corporate crime really highlights the drag that corruption places on a society's efficiency. Even if you believe that there's a lot of welfare fraud (there isn't!), the dollar in "undeserved" food stamps spent by a cheater costs society…a dollar. Meanwhile the dollar that a corporate criminal makes by skimping on workplace safety costs society thousands of dollars to care for the worker who is then maimed on the job.
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    @pluralistic The sad thing being, of course, that society is far more interested in finding and punishing a thousand one dollar cheaters (and the vast cost of that) than it is in prosecuting the single thousand dollar (corp) cheater.

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