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Kaiba: Am I supposed to be scared to attack?
Dartz: Well, only if destroying an innocent soul concerns you.
Kaiba: Naaah. As the President of a major corporation, I have to do that every day.
Dartz: Well, only if destroying an innocent soul concerns you.
Kaiba: Naaah. As the President of a major corporation, I have to do that every day.
— Yu-Gi-Oh!, "Waking the Dragons" arc
Comic Books
"I hear you're a conspiracy nut. Well, this is the conspiracy, kid. It ain't ancient gods an' aliens an' coded shit on the dollar bill. It ain't even a secret. It's somethin' ordinary folks do for a livin', every day of the week. It's business."
— The Legend, The Boys #19
Film — Animated
So I'm biggering my company
I'm biggering my factory
I'm biggering my corporate sign
Everybody out there, take care of yours and me?
I'll take care of mine, mine, mine, mine, mine!
(Shake that bottom line)
Let me hear you say 'smogulous smoke'
(smogulous smoke)
Schloppity schlop
(schloppity schlop)
Complain all you want, it's never ever, ever, ever gonna stop
I'm biggering my factory
I'm biggering my corporate sign
Everybody out there, take care of yours and me?
I'll take care of mine, mine, mine, mine, mine!
(Shake that bottom line)
Let me hear you say 'smogulous smoke'
(smogulous smoke)
Schloppity schlop
(schloppity schlop)
Complain all you want, it's never ever, ever, ever gonna stop
— The Once-ler, "How Bad Can I Be?", The Lorax (2012)
Bob Parr: Are you saying that we shouldn't help our customers?
Gilbert Huph: The law requires that I answer "no."
Gilbert Huph: The law requires that I answer "no."
Lex Luthor: Get this to Biochem, hand-carry only. Keep it off the interlink.
Mercy Graves: I know the drill, Lex. What is it, the cure for cancer?
Lex: Muscular dystrophy. I can cure every known case with a simple inoculation. Have Swan find a way to slow it to a crawl. Turn it into a lifetime treatment program. Right now, it's a mere $300-billion windfall.
Mercy: And you need it to be a perennial, got it.
Mercy Graves: I know the drill, Lex. What is it, the cure for cancer?
Lex: Muscular dystrophy. I can cure every known case with a simple inoculation. Have Swan find a way to slow it to a crawl. Turn it into a lifetime treatment program. Right now, it's a mere $300-billion windfall.
Mercy: And you need it to be a perennial, got it.
Film — Live-Action
"You make history, I make money."
— Steven Jacobs, Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Mr. Elkenberry: I started with nothing. And yet I was a millionaire by the time I was 18. Anyone stood in my way, they got hurt. When I was 11 years old, I killed a man.
Arthur: Well, when you're 11, you probably don't even know there's a law against that.
Arthur: Well, when you're 11, you probably don't even know there's a law against that.
"You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage."
— Ellen Ripley, Aliens
Obanno: Do you believe in God, Mr. "Le Chiffre"?
Le Chiffre: No. I believe in a reasonable rate of return.
Le Chiffre: No. I believe in a reasonable rate of return.
Bruce Wayne: Yeah, well, I'm gonna have to fight you on this. And I've already spoken to the Mayor, and we see eye-to-eye, so—
Max Shreck: Mayors come and go. Bluebloods tire easy. You really think you can go fifteen rounds with Muhammad Shreck?
Max Shreck: Mayors come and go. Bluebloods tire easy. You really think you can go fifteen rounds with Muhammad Shreck?
"Killing the indigenous looks bad, but there's one thing shareholders hate more than bad press - and that's a bad quarterly statement."
— Parker Selfridge, Avatar
Elliot Carver: Mr. Jones, are we ready to release our new software?
Jones: Yes, sir. As requested, it's full of bugs, which means people will be forced to upgrade for years.
Carver: Outstanding! Mr. Wallace, call the President. Tell him if he doesn't sign the bill lowering the cable rates, we will release the video of him with the cheerleader in the Chicago motel room.
Mr. Wallace: Inspired, sir.
Carver: And after he signs the bill, release the tape anyway.
Wallace: Consider him slimed.
Jones: Yes, sir. As requested, it's full of bugs, which means people will be forced to upgrade for years.
Carver: Outstanding! Mr. Wallace, call the President. Tell him if he doesn't sign the bill lowering the cable rates, we will release the video of him with the cheerleader in the Chicago motel room.
Mr. Wallace: Inspired, sir.
Carver: And after he signs the bill, release the tape anyway.
Wallace: Consider him slimed.
"People wanna live like this, in their cars and big fuckin' houses they can't even pay for — then you're necessary. The only reason that they all get to continue living like kings is cause we got our fingers on the scales in their favor. I take my hand off, and then the whole world gets really fuckin' fair really fuckin' quickly, and nobody actually wants that. They say they do, but they don't. They want what we have to give them, but they also wanna, you know, play innocent and pretend they have no idea where it came from. Well, that's more hypocrisy than I'm willing to swallow, so fuck 'em. Fuck normal people."
— Will Emerson, Margin Call
Bartleby: Your continued existence is a mockery of morality. Like you, Mr. Burton: last year, you cheated on your wife of seventeen years eight times. You even had sex with her best friend while you were supposed to be "home watching the kids".
Loki: In the bed that you and your wife share, no less!
Bartleby: Mr. Newman, you got your girlfriend drunk at last year's Christmas party and then paid a kid from the mail room to have sex with her — while she was passed out — just so you could break up with her guilt-free when she sobbingly confessed in the morning. (She, uh, killed herself three months later.) Mr. Brace disowned his gay son! Very compassionate, Mr. Brace. Mr. Ray put his mother in a third-rate nursing home and then used the profits from the sale of her home to buy an oriental rug for himself. Heavens. Mr. Barker flew to Thailand on the company account to have sex with an eleven! Year! Old! Boy! Mr. Holtzman okay'ed the production of Mooby Dolls from materials he knew to be toxic and unsafe, because it was — SURVEY SAYS...! Less costly.
Loki: In the bed that you and your wife share, no less!
Bartleby: Mr. Newman, you got your girlfriend drunk at last year's Christmas party and then paid a kid from the mail room to have sex with her — while she was passed out — just so you could break up with her guilt-free when she sobbingly confessed in the morning. (She, uh, killed herself three months later.) Mr. Brace disowned his gay son! Very compassionate, Mr. Brace. Mr. Ray put his mother in a third-rate nursing home and then used the profits from the sale of her home to buy an oriental rug for himself. Heavens. Mr. Barker flew to Thailand on the company account to have sex with an eleven! Year! Old! Boy! Mr. Holtzman okay'ed the production of Mooby Dolls from materials he knew to be toxic and unsafe, because it was — SURVEY SAYS...! Less costly.
— Dogma
Beckett: People are what they love, Jack, and what they love is cargo. They love spices, and linens, and silks, and plantains. And as long as it is delivered on time and in sufficient supply, then they are content to be nothing more than figures on a ledger. You're a clever man, Jack. You know I'm right.
Captain Jack Sparrow: If you're offering me a seat on the board, I am neither depraved enough nor drunk enough to accept.
Captain Jack Sparrow: If you're offering me a seat on the board, I am neither depraved enough nor drunk enough to accept.
— Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (deleted scene)
Randolph Duke: The good part, William, is that, no matter whether our clients make money or lose money, Duke & Duke get the commissions!
Mortimer Duke: Well? What do you think, Valentine?
Billy Ray: Sounds to me like you guys a couple of bookies!
Mortimer Duke: Well? What do you think, Valentine?
Billy Ray: Sounds to me like you guys a couple of bookies!
"Hey, business is business. You use a gun, I use a fountain pen, what's the difference?"
— Harry Ellis, Die Hard
"I had a guaranteed military sale with ED-209 — renovation program, spare parts for twenty-five years... Who cares if it worked or not?"
— Dick Jones, RoboCop (1987)
Literature
After all, what could a master criminal buy? There was a shortage of seaside properties with real lava flows near a reliable source of piranhas, and the world sure as hell didn't need another Dark Lord, not with Gilt doing so well. Gilt didn’t need a tower with ten thousand trolls camped outside. He just needed a ledger and a sharp mind. It worked better, was cheaper and he could go out and party at night.
— Going Postal gives us the obligatory Terry Pratchett quote
I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin". The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.
— The Screwtape Letters (preface)
Everyone remembers the eighties tycoons, and I was typical of the breed, right down to the ex-hostie second wife with the tanned skin, white clothes and chunky jewelry, and a hopelessly spoiled daughter to boot, the aforementioned Rhonda. There was only one golden rule to understand, and it was this — the larger the debt, the safer you were. If you owed a bank a hundred grand, say, and you couldn't pay it back, then the bank would shut you down in an instant. But if you owed a bank a hundred million, and couldn't pay it back, then the bank itself was in danger and so would do absolutely everything to keep you afloat, including throwing more money at you. And not only banks — state governments would jump in, too. Because if you folded and the bank folded, then that was a crisis and people lost jobs and MPs lost votes. So you couldn't go wrong. Debts got shuffled and hidden, annual reports got fudged, shareholders got deluded and ripped off, and the long lunches got longer and drunker and ever more desperate.
— Underground, by Andrew McGahan
"There are some people who abandon their morality when they find it expedient, others who were born without any, and a very few remarkable individuals who have heard the word and are quite unable to comprehend its meaning, but Lord Warfield is in a class by himself. His career has been... noteworthy."
— Captain Everett, The Flying Cloud
If you're going to be businessmen, don't confuse the vocation with larceny.
Live-Action TV
"My God! ISO 9001 Certification is a license to kill!"
— Tom Servo, Mystery Science Theater 3000: Time Chasers
"This isn't Wall Street, this is Hell! We have a little something called 'integrity'."
— Crowley, Supernatural
Linsdey: I'm sorry, we only accept a certain class of clientele.
Angel: I'm sure I've killed enough people to qualify.
Angel: I'm sure I've killed enough people to qualify.
— Angel, "Blind Date"
Earl: I think you're missing the point, sir. The world may be coming to an end!
Richfield: Well, that's a fourth quarter problem.
Richfield: Well, that's a fourth quarter problem.
President: Of course, the irony is while you've been closing plants here in the west, you've been building them in the east. So if the unemployed were sent to the eastern labour camps, a great many of them would be working for you again, only this time without payment.
Morgus: I hadn't thought of that.
President: Of course you hadn't.
Morgus: I hadn't thought of that.
President: Of course you hadn't.
"Give a man a gun and he'll rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he'll rob the world."
— Tyrell Wellick, Mr. Robot
"'Nice?' That doesn't sound like CEO behavior."
—Ollie Akana, Power Rangers Cosmic Fury
Music
She sells seashells on a seashore
But the value of these shells will fall
Due to the laws of supply and demand
No one wants to buy shells 'cause there's loads on the sand
Step 1: you must create a sense of scarcity
Shells will sell much better if the people think they’re rare, you see
Bare with me, take as many shells as you can find and hide 'em on an island
Stockpile 'em high until they’re rarer than a diamond
Step 2: you gotta make the people think that they want 'em
Really want 'em, really fuckin' want 'em, hit 'em like Bronson
Influencers, product placement, featured prime time entertainment
If you haven’t got a shell, then you're just a fucking waste man
Three: it's monopoly, invest inside some property
Start a corporation, make a logo, do it properly
"Shells must sell", that will be your new philosophy
Swallow all your morals, they're a poor man's quality
Four: expand, expand, expand
Clear forest, make land, fresh blood on hand
Five: why just shells? Why limit yourself?
She sells seashells, sell oil as well
Six: guns, sell stocks, sell diamonds, sell rocks
Sell water to a fish, sell the time to a clock
Seven: press on the gas, take your foot off the brakes
Then run to be the president of the United States
Eight: big smile mate, big wave, that's great
Now the truth is overrated, tell lies out the gate
Nine: Polarise the people, controversy is the game
It don't matter if they hate you if they all say your name
Ten: the world is yours
Step out on a stage to a round of applause
You're a liar, a cheat, a devil, a whore
And you sell seashells on the seashore
But the value of these shells will fall
Due to the laws of supply and demand
No one wants to buy shells 'cause there's loads on the sand
Step 1: you must create a sense of scarcity
Shells will sell much better if the people think they’re rare, you see
Bare with me, take as many shells as you can find and hide 'em on an island
Stockpile 'em high until they’re rarer than a diamond
Step 2: you gotta make the people think that they want 'em
Really want 'em, really fuckin' want 'em, hit 'em like Bronson
Influencers, product placement, featured prime time entertainment
If you haven’t got a shell, then you're just a fucking waste man
Three: it's monopoly, invest inside some property
Start a corporation, make a logo, do it properly
"Shells must sell", that will be your new philosophy
Swallow all your morals, they're a poor man's quality
Four: expand, expand, expand
Clear forest, make land, fresh blood on hand
Five: why just shells? Why limit yourself?
She sells seashells, sell oil as well
Six: guns, sell stocks, sell diamonds, sell rocks
Sell water to a fish, sell the time to a clock
Seven: press on the gas, take your foot off the brakes
Then run to be the president of the United States
Eight: big smile mate, big wave, that's great
Now the truth is overrated, tell lies out the gate
Nine: Polarise the people, controversy is the game
It don't matter if they hate you if they all say your name
Ten: the world is yours
Step out on a stage to a round of applause
You're a liar, a cheat, a devil, a whore
And you sell seashells on the seashore
— Ren, "Money Game, Pt. 2"
I built a little empire out of some crazy garbage
Called the blood of the exploited working class
But they've overcome their shyness
Now they're calling me Your Highness
And the world screams "Kiss me, son of God!"
Called the blood of the exploited working class
But they've overcome their shyness
Now they're calling me Your Highness
And the world screams "Kiss me, son of God!"
— They Might Be Giants, "Kiss Me, Son of God"
I'd do it in a minute
If I could write off your murder
I'd save all of my receipts
Because I'd rather you be dead
Than lose a tiny shred of what I made this fiscal year
I'd rather you be dead than ponder parting with my second home
I'd rather you be dead than consider not opening a restaurant
I'd rather you be dead
If I could write off your murder
I'd save all of my receipts
Because I'd rather you be dead
Than lose a tiny shred of what I made this fiscal year
I'd rather you be dead than ponder parting with my second home
I'd rather you be dead than consider not opening a restaurant
I'd rather you be dead
You can wheel and deal the best of them
Steal it from the rest of them
You know the score
Their ethics are a bore"
Steal it from the rest of them
You know the score
Their ethics are a bore"
— Ray Stevens, "Mr. Businessman"
There's a man going around in the town
Spreading lies
He's the bad businessman
Does his business while he can
He just does his business bad
Spreading lies
He's the bad businessman
Does his business while he can
He just does his business bad
— Squirrel Nut Zippers, "Bad Businessman"
The markets are free
So much money for me
Tell me, why should I care for peace and love?"
So much money for me
Tell me, why should I care for peace and love?"
— Pig with the Face of a Boy, "Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris"
Of all things malign,
An accident on the assembly line today
Cut him to the bone
"But what can you expect from clumsy 8-year-olds?" I'm told
An accident on the assembly line today
Cut him to the bone
"But what can you expect from clumsy 8-year-olds?" I'm told
— Voltaire, "Robber Baron"
You'll be wanting a contract
You'll be waiting a while
I'd like to give you my contact
But that isn't my style
Well, you only get one chance
And it's too good to miss
If I didn't lie to you
Then I wouldn't exist
You'll be waiting a while
I'd like to give you my contact
But that isn't my style
Well, you only get one chance
And it's too good to miss
If I didn't lie to you
Then I wouldn't exist
— Iron Maiden, "El Dorado"
Even corporate hands is filthy
They talk team and take the paper route
All they think about is bank accounts, assets and realty
They talk team and take the paper route
All they think about is bank accounts, assets and realty
Newspaper Comics
Asok: Wally, I've discovered a deadly security flaw in our product. Who should I inform?
Wally: No one. The stock market would plunge. We'd have massive layoffs. Your career will be ruined.
Asok: But my negligence could cause the death of a dozen customers.
Wally: The first dozen is always the hardest.
Wally: No one. The stock market would plunge. We'd have massive layoffs. Your career will be ruined.
Asok: But my negligence could cause the death of a dozen customers.
Wally: The first dozen is always the hardest.
— Dilbert
Podcasts
"Hello and welcome to the corporate announcements for Kakos Industries. As you may know by now, I am Corin Deeth III, taking over for my recently deceased Grandfather as CEO. Here at Kakos Industries, we pride ourselves on being able to provide you, the shareholder, with healthy profits gathered from helping businesses around the world to Do Evil Better."
— Corin Deeth III, Kakos Industries
Professional Wrestling
"I prey on the innocent. It's how I made my fortune, and, quite frankly, it's fun."
— John "Bradshaw" Layfield, WWE Monday Night Raw
Tabletop Games
"We chase and shout after the man who steals your basket of eggs. The wiser thief is the man who manipulates us into buying goods we need at his shop and overcharges us a copper piece every time he can. He takes much more from us all, without ever having to run anywhere or suffer our anger. Indeed, sometimes we praise him for providing what we want or need, and never look past his welcoming smile."
The cost of the fine is always less than the cost of compliance.
— The motto of Endron, Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Subsidiaries: A Guide To Pentex
Theatre
"Meanwhile the four ugly corporation directors were having a wonderful time. They were running the company all over the place. Twice a day they watered the stock, to keep it fresh. And every Saturday they took a long pair of garden shears and trimmed the dividend. All in all, you would not find a nicer bunch of fellows outside of a police line-up."
— The Narrator, The Solid Gold Cadillac
There are so many things I remember
From the deeply revered days of old
When living was gentle and gracious
And working folk did as they're told.
They were wonderful days, I remember,
When a feller could live like a king;
And children were working in coal mines
And life was a beautiful thing.
But the fortunes of mankind are changing;
Things aren't what they were anymore;
And although I'm in no way complaining,
By Harris and Tweed, I preferred it before
From the deeply revered days of old
When living was gentle and gracious
And working folk did as they're told.
They were wonderful days, I remember,
When a feller could live like a king;
And children were working in coal mines
And life was a beautiful thing.
But the fortunes of mankind are changing;
Things aren't what they were anymore;
And although I'm in no way complaining,
By Harris and Tweed, I preferred it before
— Sir, The Roar of the Greasepaint — The Smell of the Crowd, "Things to Remember" (reprise)
"I've spent a lifetime building this company, paying off the police, bribing the political elite, and snuffing out popular resistance as if it were a naughty baby bunny in the palm of my hand. My right hand. I've centralized all power to a pinpoint spot — right here! Between these two ears!"
— Caldwell B. Cladwell, Urinetown
Video Games
"The unfiltered starlight from the lovely constellations above is full of deadly radiation! Help yourself to our complimentary SPF 3000 starblock. And by 'complimentary', I mean 'quite expensive'."
— Dr. Eggman, via the PA system, Sonic Colors
"New York disappeared behind a veil of snow. I had crossed the threshold. This was her domain. Sleek and sexy and soulless, all glass and steel. A place of color-coded security keycards, metal detectors and surveillance systems. Colder than a walk-in fridge. Cold as a gun."
"In compliance with the business plan drafted by Star Dream, effective today, you are... terminated!"
— Max Profitt Haltmann, Kirby: Planet Robobot
"To gain, you must give... One must be resolved to give even more if they wish to stand above others. We are on vastly different levels... and soon, I will rise to a new stage— the political world! The cold reality of kicking people down is a part of business! Virtue and sentiment are for losers. *chuckle* Okumura Foods shall be the foundation of my victory!"
— Shadow Okumura, Persona 5
Visual Novels
"You won't get anywhere if you spend your time worrying about a few measly laborers. This is an endeavor backed by the entire nation. Their deaths are honorable, in service of their country. The biggest loss is not of people's lives, but of time. The longer a project takes, the more money it costs, and the less profit we make. What we seek is rapid progress, even if the methods to obtain it are messy — or deadly."
— Jacopo Bearzatti, The House in Fata Morgana
Web Animation
"Weyland-Yutani now of the opinion that an uncontrollable biological weapon that reliably wipes out their science teams en masse is totally worth openly declaring war on their own country's military for. Christ knows how Weyland-Yutani spent their time before the aliens were discovered; probably threw children on piles of burning money."
"I'd lay off every employee in Mantle if I wasn't trying to get their damn votes for this council seat!"
— Jacques Schnee, RWBY, "Pomp And Circumstance"
Webcomics
Florence: So you're saying we should go to the company C.E.O. and appeal to his generosity and nobility instead of his greed?
Sawtooth: Psst. Florence. Go with the greed.
Sawtooth: Psst. Florence. Go with the greed.
Darcy: Galatea runs the comic distribution monopoly in America.
Galatea: I do hope that you like our work! Well, not like you have a choice.
Izzy: (pulling out a gun) SO YOU'RE THE BITCH THAT-
Galatea: Oh my, is that gunpowder I smell? You wouldn't shoot a blind woman, would you?
Darcy: Go ahead. She did it to herself.
Galatea: It's incredibly easy to dehumanize customers when you can't see their pathetic faces!
Darcy: Are the increased sales really worth chemically blinding yourself?
Galatea: The quarterly projected earnings charts seem to think so!
Galatea: I do hope that you like our work! Well, not like you have a choice.
Izzy: (pulling out a gun) SO YOU'RE THE BITCH THAT-
Galatea: Oh my, is that gunpowder I smell? You wouldn't shoot a blind woman, would you?
Darcy: Go ahead. She did it to herself.
Galatea: It's incredibly easy to dehumanize customers when you can't see their pathetic faces!
Darcy: Are the increased sales really worth chemically blinding yourself?
Galatea: The quarterly projected earnings charts seem to think so!
Web Original
Cash Equals Orgasm.
Constantly Having Every Vehicle Recalled Over Lousy Engineering Techniques
"You might remember Shkreli
as the CEO who jacked up the cost of an AIDS-related drug by five THOUSAND percent, and then capped off his year by buying the only known copy of the new Wu-Tang Clan album for a reported $2 million at auction. And frankly, I find it comforting to know that all of my assumptions about rich people — namely, that they are heartless creeps who do evil things simply because they can — have been proven correct by this sniveling bag of shit who looks like a keyboardist from Arcade Fire."
as the CEO who jacked up the cost of an AIDS-related drug by five THOUSAND percent, and then capped off his year by buying the only known copy of the new Wu-Tang Clan album for a reported $2 million at auction. And frankly, I find it comforting to know that all of my assumptions about rich people — namely, that they are heartless creeps who do evil things simply because they can — have been proven correct by this sniveling bag of shit who looks like a keyboardist from Arcade Fire." Web Video
"I wonder if the CEO just rubs himself with money."
— Gordon Freeman, Freeman's Mind
"I know this is supposed to be an evil corporation, but having actual pure, elemental evil lying around seems to be slight overkill."
Western Animation
Lex Luthor/Brainiac: I'm about to get everything I ever wanted. Power! Ultimate knowledge! Immortality!
Superman: And you'll destroy the Earth to get it?
Luthor: It's business, Superman. There are always trade-offs.
Superman: And you'll destroy the Earth to get it?
Luthor: It's business, Superman. There are always trade-offs.
"Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business."
— Charles Montgomery Burns, The Simpsons
Ed Wuncler I: I admire entrepreneurship in young people!
Huey Freeman: You mean like them 12-year-old girls that work in your sweatshops in Indonesia?
Wuncler: That's right, every morning I wake up and put one foot on the ground, and the other up the ass of a 12-year-old Indonesian girl.
Huey Freeman: You mean like them 12-year-old girls that work in your sweatshops in Indonesia?
Wuncler: That's right, every morning I wake up and put one foot on the ground, and the other up the ass of a 12-year-old Indonesian girl.
Real Life
"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."
"Given the nature of free-market capitalism — where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs — is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema."
"Much to the chagrin of whoever he worked for; it has rapidly become apparent that Jeffrey Epstein was not just some smart larky guy who ended up twisted... Epstein's true role was as a key executive in an unnamed-but-clearly-massive organization that’s usually called 'transnational organized crime' by academics."
— Daniel Hopsicker
"We were looking at trend lines. We saw that the aging baby boomer demographics were coming on strong. That meant there’s going to be a lot more diabetic patients, a lot more cancer patients, etc. How do we capture those market segments?"
It takes no effort imagining Snyder trying to close down a teen rec center or programming a hidden Directive 4 into one of his stooges.
