"Corporate crime" is an oxymoron in America. While it's true that the most consequential and profligate theft in America is #WageTheft, its mechanisms are so obscure and, well, dull that it's easy to sell us on the false impression that the real problem is shoplifting:
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Corporate crime is often hidden behind Dana Clare's #ShieldOfBoringness, cloaked in euphemisms like "risk and compliance" or that old favorite, "#WhiteCollarCrime":
And corporate crime has a kind of performative complexity. The crimes come to us wreathed in specialized jargon and technical terminology that make them hard to discern.
It's good to see authorities are finally to start arresting and sentencing cryptocurrency scammers that almost seemed they got away with it
These days billions upon billions just "disappear" and almost no one asks any questions while the perpetrators keep getting away with it and starting a new scam..
But when I "take an apple" from the store you don't wanna know how soon the cops are there..
#Cryptocurrency scams are criminal and should be treated this way
This made me laugh for hours. I still can't believe it. My work was blatantly ripped off. Normally that's not funny. But when it's the Gardaí doing it, all you can do is laugh.
My sign for County Wicklow from 9 years ago vs the new Garda sign on Howth head today. 😂 lads, seriously now. #plagiarism#whiteCollarCrime#intellectualProperty#design#graphicDesign#ireland