A person on their own can kill maybe a few hundred people. White collar crimes have killed tens of thousands. Its hard not to look at the Bhopal disaster (union carbide India was 50.1,% USA owned) and think that wasn't violent
A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes.
It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.
It's similarly difficult to look at what Enron did and think oh it's fine. Like I doubt those rolling blackouts didn't cost lives nevermind the indirect effects
I toured the Icelandic parliament when I visited in 2017. In front is a really striking, somber piece of public art that symbolizes the cleavage in trust between the Icelandic public and their political and financial leaders: a giant black stone riven with a deep crack. What a reminder.
