Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Gangsters have gone out of style because its safer and easier to be a white collar criminal (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Playing through the latest Yazuka game about the death of the Yakuza, similar to the last of the outlaws in RDR2.

You could just do an FTX and scapegoat 1 person, or be like WeWork and get rich losing money. Not to mention the hundreds of embezzling, politician lobbying companies out there or even the chaebols in Asia.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I grew up in a family who were professional criminals. Nearly all of the first and second generation eventually got into real estate development and the several of the second generation went into tax law. A bunch of other families I knew of got into local politics.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago (1 children)

....so nothing really changed for them and they're still doing basically the same things? /s

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago

The /s doesn't really belong here.