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Originally Posted by woj
you can rant all you want, but there are perhaps only 5 people on this board that get it... last few years everyone on here turned into a socialist for some reason, any mention of banks, corporations or even anything at all involving more $$ than they make, and the thread turns into discussion of "unfairness", "greed", finger pointing/blame and of course discussions of how they should be "taxed more" and/or be "sent to jail"...  |
I am all for making a profit... I run a business with that same goal. Not destroying the entire Gulf ecosystem is a pretty low standard to set for protecting the public good. Seeking a profit does not mean doing so at the complete exclusion of laws, regulations and the public good. They got fined 4B and quickly accepted their guilt because of how badly they fucked up... and they are fine with that because *everyone* agrees what they did was wrong. The problem is the fine is going to be passed on to consumers and the asshats who did this will go on doing the same kind of things in the future. We are giving them an incentive to misbehave.