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Fred Reed's mathematical analysis of Trump's Wall proves that Trump is insincere, proves that Trump is mathematically incompetent, and earns Fred Reed an honorary nerd card:
https://fredoneverything.org/the-wall-the-sound-and-the-fury-and-not-much-else/
More math!
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Trump's Wall Is Mathematically Unlikely
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @05:37PM
It's a fundamental part of running a business to weigh RISK and COSTs over a planned period of time. Breaking the law for MANY corporations is NO different for them to consider than the 1000s of other decisions that must be made. It's so easy to treat legality like any other business factor; same with morality... That is how corporations and how we structure them promotes people who might not be evil individually to do far more immoral and/or illegal things by proxy.
Corporate punishments NEED TO BE FAR MORE SEVERE than individual punishments. A corporation not wishing to collapse will evaluate a severe COST and it's risk accordingly. If they know they won't have a high COST, they'll not even care about the RISK - it can be treated like a TAX... except it's a tax you ONLY pay on the rare occasion you get "assessed" (caught) and you can often negotiate it down lower, unlike a tax.
We NEVER have a shortage of people for management; they are supposed to be paid more for having more responsibility--- but they do not have actual responsibility; culturally, there was a weak implied social contract. We MUST stop viewing them as high priests who magically produce jobs and at least treat them on par with lawyers... if not lower. If they go to jail, that responsibility would justify their salary. The implied social contract that they protect our jobs, our company, our economy-- no longer exists and it wasn't great to begin with. They lack of ANY constraints is why it progressed downhill and continues to do so... especially as they find it easier to remove themselves from the culture in which they are symbiotic parasites. (they are... think about it... they are in it for greed and we want to benefit from that... but the symbiotic relationship is getting way too imbalanced. welcome to the 2nd gilded age.)