<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>browsercoin</author><text>Well, once you realize that essentially, large American Fortune 500 companies are actively supported by its spy agency (hint: They Hate Snowden) through a veil of foreign aid and other friendly name sounding causes such as &amp;quot;volunteers of Amazonian language preservation of America&amp;quot; calling in military assets to put down a rebellion  from the foreign country, that get in their way of the lootin of their country.&lt;p&gt;The book &amp;#x27;Confessions of Economic Hitman&amp;#x27; perfectly illustrates a sort of &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;active measures&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; that take place with increasing lethal consequences for those that oppose them.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    1. identify elites in a country (ex. bankers, biz ppl)

    2. lucrative contracts and monopoly handed out to elites via government.

    3. profit???

    4. If no profit, use bribe to corrupt key players.

    5. If still no profit, send in the jackals (what EH calls professional assassins), put poison in cigars, drone strike.

    6. If tradecraft fails, then they put boots on the ground. 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
South America is a very good example. It&amp;#x27;s been thoroughly pillaged by American corporations now for over a century, which has given rise to narco-economy.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=NKwJI9axblQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=NKwJI9axblQ&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>beloch</author><text>Well, at least they didn&amp;#x27;t start another famine[1]... &lt;i&gt;this&lt;/i&gt; time.&lt;p&gt;Question:  How does Goldman Sachs &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; get away with this stuff?  Due to their lengthy rap sheet, &lt;i&gt;multiple&lt;/i&gt; governments and every law enforcement agency in the world &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; be watching their every action.  It&amp;#x27;s a safe bet they&amp;#x27;re going to do something illegal again... and again... and again.  Why aren&amp;#x27;t they being caught in the act and stopped before they can waltz off with the profits?  Why haven&amp;#x27;t they been shut down or barred from doing business in the jurisdictions they&amp;#x27;ve screwed over? Malaysia is going after Goldman Sachs for reparations, but have they kicked the company out of Malaysia?&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&amp;#x2F;voices&amp;#x2F;commentators&amp;#x2F;johann-hari&amp;#x2F;johann-hari-how-goldman-gambled-on-starvation-2016088.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&amp;#x2F;voices&amp;#x2F;commentators&amp;#x2F;johann-har...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Goldman Sachs Ensnarled in Vast 1MDB Fraud Scandal</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/business/goldman-sachs-malaysia-investment-fund.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>justboxing</author><text>&amp;gt; Question: How does Goldman Sachs still get away with this stuff?&lt;p&gt;Answer: Because there&amp;#x27;s a history of Goldman Sachs executives going from Wall Street to Washington DC (Government) taking up top positions - ex: Paulson as Treasury Secretary - so they can create and change Laws to suit their business.&lt;p&gt;In short, it&amp;#x27;s like a Thief who gets himself appointed as the Judge for his own Trial.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; As the man who presided over the biggest market meltdown in recent U.S. history, he has become a symbol of two worlds colliding—he&amp;#x27;s the Goldman Sachs CEO who came to Washington and then had to bail out his old friends on Wall Street.&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;hank-paulson-mastered-wall-street-and-washington-and-now-he-trusts-neither&amp;#x2F;283572&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;hank-pa...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related: [2009] Why Goldman Always Wins =&amp;gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;magazine&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2009&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;why-goldman-always-wins&amp;#x2F;307653&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;magazine&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2009&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;why-gol...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>beloch</author><text>Well, at least they didn&amp;#x27;t start another famine[1]... &lt;i&gt;this&lt;/i&gt; time.&lt;p&gt;Question:  How does Goldman Sachs &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; get away with this stuff?  Due to their lengthy rap sheet, &lt;i&gt;multiple&lt;/i&gt; governments and every law enforcement agency in the world &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; be watching their every action.  It&amp;#x27;s a safe bet they&amp;#x27;re going to do something illegal again... and again... and again.  Why aren&amp;#x27;t they being caught in the act and stopped before they can waltz off with the profits?  Why haven&amp;#x27;t they been shut down or barred from doing business in the jurisdictions they&amp;#x27;ve screwed over? Malaysia is going after Goldman Sachs for reparations, but have they kicked the company out of Malaysia?&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&amp;#x2F;voices&amp;#x2F;commentators&amp;#x2F;johann-hari&amp;#x2F;johann-hari-how-goldman-gambled-on-starvation-2016088.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&amp;#x2F;voices&amp;#x2F;commentators&amp;#x2F;johann-har...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Goldman Sachs Ensnarled in Vast 1MDB Fraud Scandal</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/business/goldman-sachs-malaysia-investment-fund.html</url></story>