Simon Brooke on Nostr: The law primarily exists to protect the rich against the poor. I'm extremely ...
The law primarily exists to protect the rich against the poor. I'm extremely skeptical about whether it can ever effectively be used to protect the poor against the rich, since the rich will always either embrace or stubborn both the lawmakers and the justices.
#Corruption is endemic and will probably always be so, so long as we have private property.
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