Airbus Corruption Scandal May Lead Straight to the Top
Corruption is everywhere in business, but it's selectively enforced. No finance execs went to jail for the financial crisis.(0)Perhaps the most frustrating thing about the current political climate is that while fighting corruption headlined presidential campaigns of the long-ago past, it never headlines them today even though almost all of our country's problems are direct results of corruption.Jobs is a headline issue, but corporate corruption is endless. The financial sector has not been punished, in fact, Goldman Sachs has an influential post in Trump's cabinet(1). The auto industry was awarded bail outs for its corruption. This list goes on forever.Healthcare could not be fixed, despite the desires of a popular President that wanted to make it his trademark legislation, because of corruption.We have spent trillions on the War on Poverty, but it's hard to say Americans have much of a social safety net. The War on Drugs has created endless misery and violence, while the journalist who accurately exposed CIA drug running somehow suicided by two gunshot wounds to the head.We have endless wars, police murdering people without punishment, unconstitutional three letter agencies, and useless government bureaucracies. All the while growing socieconomic inequality.As developers, we are builders, and so it is in our self interest, and not just moral interest, to fight corruption. And personally, I'd much rather live in a world ruled by innovators and builders than by thugs and thieves.But every election cycle it feels like there is a divide and conquer to distract us from threatening the plutocracy. Goldman and Wall St win every time. The military wins every time. Healthcare finance execs win every time, etc...0- https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-26/why-no-on...1-https://theintercept.com/2016/12/09/trump-makes-america-gold...2-https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb