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Lie More, as a Business Model

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Re: Lie More, as a Business Model

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Hasn't it always been a fairly well established business model? If anything the success of this model means we're seeing it more and more in ever more gigantic failures. Whereas before it seemed confined to snake oil salesmen and politics...

Re: Lie More, as a Business Model

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post #4

Hasn't it always been a fairly well established business model? If anything the success of this model means we're seeing it more and more in ever more gigantic failures. Whereas before it seemed confined to snake oil salesmen and politics...

I have a bridge I'm looking to sell.

Re: Lie More, as a Business Model

#7
Don't worry, in the "long run" the laissez-faire approach to corporate regulation will "end up" minimizing malfeasance and maximizing freedom. Liberty just needs more time. Like, say, another year. Two, max.

Re: Lie More, as a Business Model

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post #7

Don't worry, in the "long run" the laissez-faire approach to corporate regulation will "end up" minimizing malfeasance and maximizing freedom. Liberty just needs more time. Like, say, another year. Two, max.

It's impossible to tell the spirit in which this comment was intended.

Re: Lie More, as a Business Model

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post #7

Don't worry, in the "long run" the laissez-faire approach to corporate regulation will "end up" minimizing malfeasance and maximizing freedom. Liberty just needs more time. Like, say, another year. Two, max.

I'm not sure that providing subsidies to large banks and refusing to enforce the law when they commit crimes is a laissez-faire approach to corporate regulation.

Re: Lie More, as a Business Model

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post #5
post #4

Hasn't it always been a fairly well established business model? If anything the success of this model means we're seeing it more and more in ever more gigantic failures. Whereas before it seemed confined to snake oil salesmen and politics...

I have a bridge I'm looking to sell.

Not to mention "snake oil" liniments and other forms of quackery.
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