I am saying that I don't agree with your prior statement that it was clearly immoral.
I see it as clouded when one hears of corporations, banks, hedge funds, governments, and other well funded entities getting away with all kinds of financial games to the detriment of the many, pretty much without consequence, and then when someone plays a similar game on a smaller scale it is wrong. That's the part I don't understand.
For example, the Panama papers were a big scoop because of all the rich people hiding their identities. That's legal, but doesn't seem clear if it's really moral. Companies do that to hide money from taxpayers, right?
It seems in the U.S. anything goes as far as making money especially if you are rich, corporations are duty bound to make profits regardless of morality, etc. Otherwise if you are not rich enough to play you need to know your place and follow the rules laid down for non-rich people. Has that compromised our morals? Probably. Is calling what this lady did immoral fair given everything else that goes on? That's what I wondered.
I am saying that I don't agree with your prior statement that it was clearly immoral.
I see it as clouded when one hears of corporations, banks, hedge funds, governments, and other well funded entities getting away with all kinds of financial games to the detriment of the many, pretty much without consequence, and then when someone plays a similar game on a smaller scale it is wrong. That's the part I don't understand.
For example, the Panama papers were a big scoop because of all the rich people hiding their identities. That's legal, but doesn't seem clear if it's really moral. Companies do that to hide money from taxpayers, right?
It seems in the U.S. anything goes as far as making money especially if you are rich, corporations are duty bound to make profits regardless of morality, etc. Otherwise if you are not rich enough to play you need to know your place and follow the rules laid down for non-rich people. Has that compromised our morals? Probably. Is calling what this lady did immoral fair given everything else that goes on? That's what I wondered.