The Guardian: America's new aristocracy lives in an accountability-free zone

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Since [Enron's Jeffrey] Skilling’s conviction 12 years ago, our society has been fundamentally altered..

[I]n less than two decades, America has experienced the Iraq war, the financial crisis, intensifying economic stratification, an opioid plague, persistent gender and racial inequality and now seemingly unending climate change-intensified disasters. While the victims have been ravaged by these crime sprees, crises and calamities, the perpetrators have largely avoided arrest, inquisition, incarceration, resignation, public shaming and ruined careers.