On: The United States of America vs. Samuel Bankman-Fr...

[ivraatiems]

There's a pathology amongst wealthy people where they think that the law doesn't apply to them, period, and are simply shocked when it does.

Some other recent examples of this include the lawyer Michael Avenatti going to jail for decades for stealing from his clients, and everything that has ever happened to Donald Trump.

(In my experience as a white person it is mostly other white people who think this, but I don't want to generalize.)

[foobazgt → ivraatiems]

> (In my experience as a white person it is mostly other white people who think this, but I don't want to generalize.)

How to casually stereotype without stereotyping?

[techdmn → ivraatiems]

I would argue they have this belief because it is so often true. Exceptions are surprising to many people.

[ivraatiems → techdmn]

It's true to an extent. It's rarely true to the extent they imagine.

[throwawaylinux → ivraatiems]

Check this out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

[misiti3780 → ivraatiems]

Wealthy is subjective, I know, and here, on HN, it's certainly more subjective than most places, but are Stanford professors really consider wealthy? By northern california standards?