They:
- Emphasize job creation, when they expect tax breaks where they locate a new business, contribute to climate change, or disregard environmental and worker safety laws.
- Benefit from ongoing corruption involved in constructing a sports arena that provides a day of entertainment for fans.
- Offset massive returns from investments of questionable social value, such as production of sugary soda drinks, by making some do-good investments and philanthropic contributions.
- Learn to describe their fear of losing wealth to taxes as harmful to those who benefit from their philanthropy and research to develop new products and drugs.
- Win elections by posing as the ones who are providing the food supplied by humanitarian organizations.
- Prefer paying fines, even major ones, to making actual reforms of harmful and unfair practices.
- Hire public relations' experts to brand harmful and unfair practices with deceptive labels and descriptions that sound like public services.
- Blame poverty on the victims of government policies or people who just don't like to work.
Whatever a person's religion or lack of religion, the Christmas season offers a reminder that it takes a god to be a savior. The world is too complicated for a wealthy individual to govern alone; it takes an administration. Fair elections enable lucky voters to choose between a one-person administration dedicated to maintaining a wealthy elite or an administration with a president, cabinet, congress, and courts devoted to the rule of law and institutions that serve the public interest.
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