“I never expected to find apologist for thieves on FR.”
One of the more laughable aspects of what sometimes passes for ‘conservatism’ around here is the belief that morality can determined simply by whether or not someone is a businessman versus a government employee.
Evidently some kind of Ayn Randian nature god sorts everyone out into the proper slots, with the pure at heart all being in the private sector and the wicked working for government. Ergo anything the private sector does is by definition Not Theft. And if it is theft, it must be the government’s fault.
You would think that some of these geniuses would have heard of Charles Ponzi and Bernie Madoff, among others.
Or Enron, or Stanford, Gupta, Crazy Eddie, ZZZ Best....
the list goes on and on.
But hey, every one of these guys is a misunderstood champion of capitalism!