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Episode 247: Pachyderms, Property, and Profit

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The Profit Incentive

In Borfor, the social morays in this place are such that that behavior would never be tolerated. It's like the rule of law that just shows up one day. The reason you got an outcome like we got with the Deepwater Horizon is because Congress had limited the oil company's liability to $250 million. And he damaged beyond that, the company's not liable for.

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