VIEW FROM HERE-Most enterprises have unintended consequences. After harmful results materialize, people often press ahead ignoring the injury they are causing.
“[M]assive toxic dump site was discovered on the ocean floor between Long Beach and Catalina Island and scientists believe the site has been there for . . . at least 70 years. . . . the barrels [are] filled with toxic chemicals leaking and littered across the ocean floor.”
While the toxic chemicals were not the desired result of commercial operations, the manufacturers knew about them. Generally, manufacturers find that remedying the harm cuts too deeply into their profits. Hence, they ignore the toxic by-products. Eric Garcetti’s first approach to the homeless crisis which his Manhattanization Mania caused was to ignore it, then his surrogates blamed the victims, and now they are moving into the concealment phase.
Corruption vs Corruptionism
MY TURN America is plagued by two similar phenomena, corruption and Corruptionism, and it is important for voters to distinguish between the two.
Corruption refers to when an individual does not play by the established rules. The isolated councilmember who pockets a bribe to approve a building project or the financier who sets up a Ponzi Scheme to rip off the elderly are examples of corruption.
Corruptionism exists when a system violates society’s norms. An example is the Los Angeles City Council which operates by a vote trading system, which Penal Code § 86 criminalized, and all councilmembers have no choice but to participate. Another example of Corruptionism was the US after the 1999 Repeal of Glass-Steagall and the 2000 legitimization of Credit Default Swaps. The most recent example of Corruptionism is the Texas power grid which was separated from the other national grids and de-regulated. Just as Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) pred