alt Hacker NewsThis is such a myopic comment to me.
Name me a single country where a rich person goes against the government and wins? You just don’t see it happen much in the US because the government is run by rich capitalists, but pretty much every country is the same.
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Symbiote • today at 8:59 AM
Private companies have won against governments in ISDS courts:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/06/isds-fea...
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It happens all the time here. Wealth isn't even a precondition, but indeed, one needs time and/or money. It helps being organized with other people to share the burden. Over here we have also got the ombudsman.
It is a matter of degrees. The harder it is for a poor individual to be done justice against the government, the weaker the rule of law. On a tangent, parties that play the horn about "law and order" usually mean "rules for thee but not for me".