Still depends on how much money and power you had to start with. You still gonna go to jail for stealing from the store or selling meth. If you do it on a large enough scale you might get away with just a fine though. Steal from all US citizens, sell tainted drugs OTC, etc.

Yes.

Except it turns out that it's not the dude selling VCR's of dubious providence provenance from the back of a lorry that was the problem. It's the people smiling and wearing ties on the TV and in the government.

yeah i think they wanted this. going mask off is more efficient.

the idiots they engineered to be defending them makes it easy for them to, and being honest about their rot cements their power somewhat as something natural and inescapable. plus you can get away with being a despot.

Give them a break we all know they meant provenance.

yes! just last week i witnessed a group of bandits saying "Ni!" to an unarmed old woman. in broad daylight! what has the world come to?

I think I read somewhere that people working with ransomware gangs report finding the honesty refreshing compared to scamming

Crap. Yes. That's exactly what I mean.

I've been to Rhode Island; there are some dodgy neighborhoods in Providence.

Everything is being enshittified.
Even crime.