What He Said
Wished I wrote this; http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson110211.html
the devil made me do it
Over the years there have been many examples of corporations acting irresponsibly, unethically, illegally in pursuit of profit. About 100 years ago, United Fruit turned most of Central America into their own private banana plantation. They did it through suborning corrupt local government and if that didn't work well enough they called for the US Marines. The tobacco industry's efforts to increase the nicotine addictiveness levels of their product to ensure customers remained faithful consumers, buying research to discredit studies that proved smoking was hazardous and advertising strategies to recruit kid smokers are familiar to everyone. Another splendid example is DeBeers and diamonds. Mountains full of diamonds were discovered in the Transvaal Republic. The resulting diamond rush led to a predictable influx of immigrants, black, white and asian into the Transvaal, including a Brit named Cecil Rhodes who managed through various means to buy up most of the dia
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