Matt Taibbi Quotes About Wealth

• Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the courts to speed the process.

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  Matt Taibbi

  Poverty   Population   Our Society  

  Matt Taibbi (2014). “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap”, p.28, Spiegel & Grau

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• It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are designed to criminalize failure, poverty, and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize strength, wealth, and success on the other.

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  Matt Taibbi

  Views   Hands   Law  

  Matt Taibbi (2014). “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap”, p.14, Spiegel & Grau

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• 'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world's wealth - and nobody went to jail.

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  Matt Taibbi

  Wall   Jail   Facts  

  "Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. February 16, 2011.

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