Posted by sigismund on December 19, 2011, at 18:08:07
In reply to Corporations are not people my friend, posted by floatingbridge on December 14, 2011, at 15:37:44
I can't immediately recall the program...it was that film about the GFC. There were all these top academics and insiders who, when it came to any discussion of conflict of interest, were completely without shame and seemed to regard the whole concept as pitiable.
People will do anything.
Have you seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccsNr9UJeVY
It reminds me of Nadezda Mandelstam saying to a colleague who was in tears at Stalin's death....'What are you crying for, you fool?', and upon being told 'Things could always get worse' remarked 'She had a point'.
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