Many rich Indians in the west still treat people of lower castes like this. Even the “liberal” ones. Like in Silicon Valley there are Indians from higher castes who try to uphold the caste system and they look down on their Indian colleagues who were born in a lower caste. Even when the person of lower caste has a higher position in the company.
And Switzerland can you also go after the rich Arabs who have Filipino slaves in their mansions in Europe.
almost like the caste system was an artificial social construct invented by the elites to ensure they stay on top
Shocking, right?
I wonder how many people know that the CEO of Google participates in the caste system
Can you elaborate?
My opinion of him hit a negative buffer overflow when I learned he came from McKinsey, I would have been skeptical to learn he wasn’t classist
They will try to behave like that with others too, can’t let shit like that slide. Got to educate them ;)
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It seems a little reductive/whataboutist to bring that up in the conversation about rich british assholes, though?
I’m shocked, but happy, that they actually got jail time.
4.5 years for the parents and 4 years for the son and his wife respectively. I think jail time for people like this is the only way we can make sure they don’t do it again, a fine is no use when you’re richer than god.
Will they serve it though? They weren’t even present at the sentencing due to “poor health”.
Will they serve it though?
There is a thing called “international arrest warrant”. Of course they are rich enough to hide somewhere where the Swiss have no contract with, but I don’t think they would enjoy that…
Putting the filthy in filthy rich.
Saw reddit thread about this. Apparently the jail sentence is all but symbolic, since the defendants are currently outside Switzerland. As long as they don’t go back, they will never see the inside of a jail.
sucks we won’t see it happen but also delightful they have a mansion they can’t use
Can they sell the mansion from abroad?
it’s switzerland, I imagine they can sell it to abroad or adude
While them getting a jail sentence is good, the term is a joke, especially since they’re not likely to actually serve it all or even any of it (house arrest, time served, “good behaviour”, bribes, they aren’t short of ways nor money to get around it), and are probably the most likely to re-offend out of anyone who has ever stepped foot in a jail…
I would be much more excited if they were made to pay their earnings for the duration that they kept slaves, to the people they enslaved (never mind all the other people they have and continue to exploit to get to be the richest people), and were then kept under constant supervision to make sure they don’t start doing it again as soon as they possibly can. (I am well aware this will unfortunately never happen)
Bribes aren’t exactly a thing in Switzerland. I’m not saying there isn’t corruption but it’s not common.
That said they have to pay nearly a million dollars to the victims.
Bribes aren’t exactly a thing in Switzerland. I’m not saying there isn’t corruption but it’s not common.
Ba ha hahahaha… Thanks, I needed a good laugh…
Having you, a random citizen think there are no bribes and little corruption (I can’t even type it without laughing) doesn’t mean there aren’t any.
Switzerland, the country that claims “neutrality” but acts as the world’s best known financial, and physical, haven for not only the “anonymous” filthy rich like this family (who still have more influence on society as a whole than you can imagine), but actual dictators and war criminals, past and present, too IS corruption, in its entire essence. Its economical and political existence relies heavily on some of if not the dirtiest and most ill gotten money on the planet (the least dirty of which comes from wage theft on a global scale). Being discreet and polite about bribes and corruption is why. Maintaining favour with the evil people whose assets they protect will always be prioritised over anything else, including their local population (who are generally happy to look the other way as long as the dirty money keeps them in a relatively high standard of living, which is why they are kept in a relatively high standard of living), never mind the poor and or enslaved people overseas who are the ones actually paying the price.
That said they have to pay nearly a million dollars to the victims.
That IS a bribe, they’re literally throwing pocket change at the problem to make it go away. Going on their net worth of $70.8b, if they spent a whole million dollars a day, they wouldn’t notice it missing for nearly 200 years. And I say again - 4 of those years are categorically not going to be spent in prison, because they are never going to serve their entire sentence (and whatever part they might serve will undoubtedly be in greater comfort than they ever provided to those they enslave, and I deliberately use present tense because this isn’t going to stop them), which was already a corrupt and pathetic slap on the wrist to begin with.
This isn’t how you stop the filthy rich from enslaving people, this is how you put on a show for the poors to pretend to care while you continue to enable the exploiters and oppressors, because your government and economy depend on it (and because all of those “corruption scores” you see out there are based on perception, not fact).
And you’re buying the act.
They’re giving the royal family jail time?
The royal family are not the richest. Sure they have assets but most of it they can’t really sell.
They’re scroungers and I hope one day we oust them. How can we bang on about equality whilst holding parasites on a pedestal.
had the same thought when i read it
One day!
You remember when a international crisis happened after the Swiss police apprehended Gaddafi’s son when he beat hotel staff?
Gaddafi called for Switzerland to be split between its neighbors.
Who has the last laugh now? Don’t need with the Swiss and their dark, devious ways
TIL there are richer Britons than the Windsors.
The Windsors hide behind a technicality. The crown corporation is rich, not the family.
britains wealthy elite exploiting indians? tale as old as time
The “wealthy elite” in this case are Indian. Goes on to show that it’s not a matter of race/origin but of class, the sooner we collectively realize this the better off we’ll be.
It’s both. Trying to erase actual issues people care about (race / gender / culture / sexual orientation) doesn’t work. You can’t just say “don’t worry about it”. Not all struggle is class struggle. People actually care about their culture.
Not trying to erase anything, I just think it’s the main issue we’re facing right now, and that we’d be better off on many of these other issues if we did something about that one.
That’s what someone who doesn’t care about race, gender, etc. would say. You may not care because none of those affect you negatively.
Fuck em! Rich family, I mean. Not indians.
Some of them even got raises
Let em go. Clearly role model employers
will they actually serve jail time though?
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