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I've seen Smartest Guys In The Room, Client 9, and a few more movies expose what you're talking about. There's no shortage of hypocritical double standards based on connections, money and political power an/or favoritism. From Banking to Commodity Futures to whatever else has big money involved, it seems there are very few good guys left. By good guys I mean those who consider how their actions might negatively affect others and take a reasonable amount of responsibility for that.

I also find it unfortunate that while we're focused on the biggest fish there is an even larger mass of the same garbage going on in smaller businesses that affect even more people in a real way and on a daily basis. It takes the form of eroding the rights of common everyday working people by making employers into their own little fiefdoms where the worst they get for breaking labor standards or human rights laws ( if you can even prove it ) is a meaningless fine, while the employees stand to lose everything. I'm no big fan of unions, but at the same time, we wouldn't need unions if management weren't so corrupt and self-serving. The trend toward wide-scale corporate, fascist, dictatorial, authoritarian rule of the population is IMO a greater threat to society at large than a few big fish that got away ... not that they deserve to get away ... but it's taken the focus off our immediate relevant daily challenge within our closer communities.

<blockquote data-quote="Randall" data-source="post: 155314" data-attributes="member: 2682">I&#039;ve seen Smartest Guys In The Room, Client 9, and a few more movies expose what you&#039;re talking about. There&#039;s no shortage of hypocritical double standards based on connections, money and political power an/or favoritism. From Banking to Commodity Futures to whatever else has big money involved, it seems there are very few good guys left. By good guys I mean those who consider how their actions might negatively affect others and take a reasonable amount of responsibility for that. &nbsp;I also find it unfortunate that while we&#039;re focused on the biggest fish there is an even larger mass of the same garbage going on in smaller businesses that affect even more people in a real way and on a daily basis. It takes the form of eroding the rights of common everyday working people by making employers into their own little fiefdoms where the worst they get for breaking labor standards or human rights laws ( if you can even prove it ) is a meaningless fine, while the employees stand to lose everything. I&#039;m no big fan of unions, but at the same time, we wouldn&#039;t need unions if management weren&#039;t so corrupt and self-serving. The trend toward wide-scale corporate, fascist, dictatorial, authoritarian rule of the population is IMO a greater threat to society at large than a few big fish that got away ... not that they deserve to get away ... but it&#039;s taken the focus off our immediate relevant daily challenge within our closer communities.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Randall, post: 155314, member: 2682"] [FONT=arial]I've seen Smartest Guys In The Room, Client 9, and a few more movies expose what you're talking about. There's no shortage of hypocritical double standards based on connections, money and political power an/or favoritism. From Banking to Commodity Futures to whatever else has big money involved, it seems there are very few good guys left. By good guys I mean those who consider how their actions might negatively affect others and take a reasonable amount of responsibility for that. [/FONT] [FONT=arial]I also find it unfortunate that while we're focused on the biggest fish there is an even larger mass of the same garbage going on in smaller businesses that affect even more people in a real way and on a daily basis. It takes the form of eroding the rights of common everyday working people by making employers into their own little fiefdoms where the worst they get for breaking labor standards or human rights laws ( if you can even prove it ) is a meaningless fine, while the employees stand to lose everything. I'm no big fan of unions, but at the same time, we wouldn't need unions if management weren't so corrupt and self-serving. The trend toward wide-scale corporate, fascist, dictatorial, authoritarian rule of the population is IMO a greater threat to society at large than a few big fish that got away ... not that they deserve to get away ... but it's taken the focus off our immediate relevant daily challenge within our closer communities.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]

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