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   Yeshaya Lazarevich (alter_kaker@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 13:26:50 JST Yeshaya Lazarevich

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   @CarRamrod @yabellini @aud the reason for the contrast is that Swartz was enriching the commons, whereas Altman is enriching shareholders. It's called the profit motive. No amount of regulation can change the basic incentive structure of capitalism.

   They even acquitted German corporate executives at Nuremberg who were working slaves to death worse than the SS at Auschwitz, because it was their "fiduciary duty to company shareholders" to do so, and therefore it was ruled they had no choice...

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     Yeshaya Lazarevich (alter_kaker@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 13:26:48 JST Yeshaya Lazarevich

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     "When 24 Farben executives were tried at Nuremberg for the slaughter at Monowitz, then argued that they had no choice but to pursue slave labor – it was their duty to their shareholders. The judges agreed: 19 of those executives walked."

     From https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/19/stolpersteine/#truth-and-reconciliation citing https://www.scribd.com/document/517797736/The-Crime-and-Punishment-of-I-G-Farben

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     Antonio (agremon@mastodon.gal)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 13:26:50 JST Antonio

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     @alter_kaker Really?

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