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Or pay people enough so they don't get tempted to begin with.


Lol Martha Stewart has $400m and she got done for $230k worth of insider trading.

And Matt Levine every now and then talks about a guy making a few million a year insider insider trading a few thousand and settling.


Bechtolsheim too


That is exactly who I was thinking of but I couldn't remember the name. $16 b and he was fingered for $400k hahaha.


Wasn't it because she lied about it?


The point is that she was already rich. High pay doesn’t stop people from doing crimes.


Billionaires have literally committed financial crimes for more money. Pay has very little to do with it.


Billionairism. Addiction to the accrual of wealth and the power wealth affords. They should be in asylums not boardrooms.


There's plenty of room for them in the Fletcher Memorial Home.


Such a weird song, yet surprisingly memorable.

“And give them a home / a little place of their own…”


What is the dollar value of getting access to a phone number belonging to a celebrity or a billionaire? I don't know the exact amount, but it is 100% more than what T-Mobile can feasibly pay all of its employees. Do you think security guards protecting the federal reserve's gold vault get paid more than the value of the gold in that vault?




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