The guilty verdict in the case of the unconscionable thief, Conrad Black, shows that the system works. More accurately, it shows that it can work.
The guilty verdict in the case of the unconscionable thief, Conrad Black, shows that the system works. More accurately, it shows that it can work.
It seems to take a quite outrageous degree of blatant theft to get the shareholders (that is, institutional shareholders, who are the only ones who can exert real power), to bring the extravagant crooks to book.
Epicurus teaches us that seeking luxuries (extravagant food, excessive drink or sex) creates anxiety in our minds and disturbance in our bodies. Hah! Conrad Black and his neocon wife may at last be experiencing that anxiety and disturbance of mind which is well deserved. Pity they didn’t moderate their greed and avoid it in the first place.