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Consulting is a flaw in free market capitalism. The key idea behind free market capitalism is that if you make poor decisions, there are negative consequences for those poor decisions, regardless of your size. Now there is a way to avoid accountability in big companies: hire consultants. If they screw up, the decision-makers at big companies can always point the finger at the highly paid and highly credentialed consultants and say 'Guys, we did our best and hired the best. Who could have seen all this coming?'. The consultants are also free from accountability because technically, they only 'provide advice'. It's a win-win for both management and consultants.

The losers are only

(a) Investors, but they are often passive investors with no power to change management power structures.

(b) Customers, but they often are captive to monopolies because of network effects, moats, etc.

(c) Employees, but they usually are captive due to asset-specificity, etc.

We should all get MBAs and enjoy the gravy train.

Correlation can be because of causation

No, you don't because while there is widespread acceptance that law enforcement abused power, there is no such acceptance that the rioters have

> Whataboutism

The argument here is that USA cannot claim moral high ground when USA is actively committing the same act. Blindly claiming whataboutism without even attempting to refute this argument and is, therefore, a form of intellectual dishonesty.

> This is not a court of law, so that's kind of irrelevant.

It is important to make reasonable arguments in defense of your claims even outside courts of law.

> On the other hand, Russian nationalists and apologists of Russian politics are sometimes criticised for using allegations of "Russophobia" as a form of propaganda to counter criticism of Russia.

This is neither here nor there. This whole argument is inconclusive.

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Why are you solely blaming the companies? Are the government officials doing their jobs? If the government officials are being corrupt by accepting lobbying money and helping the corporations; they are as much (if not more) to blame for the situation as "for-profit companies". At least, for-profit companies exist to make a profit. The government, on the other hand, exists to defend the citizens.

What also makes moderation hard is that it can be abused. For example, anyone who is influential and persuasive enough can be labelled a Nazi by political opponents and targeted campaigns can be run to get them deplatformed