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Today there was an article about his parents in nytimes. I think at at least one of them is professor of law. And both parents seems to be involved with his company. I wonder if he didnt get any advice from them about not talking?! Maybe he knew that he is done legally and there is no downside to talking to public.

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There's a pathology amongst wealthy people where they think that the law doesn't apply to them, period, and are simply shocked when it does.

Some other recent examples of this include the lawyer Michael Avenatti going to jail for decades for stealing from his clients, and everything that has ever happened to Donald Trump.

(In my experience as a white person it is mostly other white people who think this, but I don't want to generalize.)

I would argue they have this belief because it is so often true. Exceptions are surprising to many people.

It's true to an extent. It's rarely true to the extent they imagine.

> (In my experience as a white person it is mostly other white people who think this, but I don't want to generalize.)

How to casually stereotype without stereotyping?

Wealthy is subjective, I know, and here, on HN, it's certainly more subjective than most places, but are Stanford professors really consider wealthy? By northern california standards?

Check this out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

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