Thank you for your brilliant demonstration of survivorship bias.
How many people were punished for Enron? For the subprime crisis? Etc.
In the US, you just give a little money for the president's ballroom and you are pardoned. Or you settle out of court because your justice system is crap.
Yes, European companies break the law too. However, the comment this was about literally mocked the companies that are actively trying to follow the law.
So yes, such companies exist and plenty of people see their existence as a good thing rather then something to mock.
It also ultimately a expression of might makes right (sad as this is) and as the current culture supports a decline of western might, it also undoes the law - first international, than domestic. We simply decided to burden our might with these restriction fictions, others feel not at all compelled to follow.
I expect to see further selling out of these laws, as the economic prosperity declines. I can perfectly see german law limiting german companies from developing and selling AI products, while at the same time allowing us companies for a "pay our retires and pension-plans" kickback.
What goalposts? Your sitting president, himself a conman is pardoning fraudsters left and right while he and his family enrich themselves with public money and extortion.
Joke's on you, I'm European not American, so "your president" in this case would be the unelected Ursula and she would technically be a con-woman, not a con-man.
Not sure what your argument was supposed to prove with this cheap jab though.
Let me rephrase this: companies want to avoid breaking the law unknowingly, because their US providers are going to break the law without notice, willingly or unwillingly.
Plenty of corporations are willing to break the rules, but never for free.
> because their US providers are going to break the law without notice, willingly or unwillingly
This is a weird hill to die on because it's not true. I can't find anything to support your world view and if anything evidence points to the contrary. Europe has a deliberately more complex legal framework, usually in the hopes of keeping out foreign competition (although it's dubious whether or not that actually works).
Haha, yeah sure. What other fairy tales you gonna tells us next?
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