The first episode was about the mess surrounding VW's handling of their diesel cheating. It was far worse than I ever imagined and serves as an extreme example of how ugly capitalism can be.
The second episode is also vaguely car-related, opening with some racing video; the driver being the head of a payday loan business.
I need to sit down and watch this. Their cover photo was of Martin Shkreli, VW, and Scott Tucker (why did I say Pruitt? I've been reading the news too much) are also featured.
Pretty much the ugliest scandals of the last several years where someone was actually punished. I wonder if Wells Fargo and Equifax are going to get one as well? Sadly no one was held responsible in either of those cases.
Oh... There's one about the raid of the national Canadian Maple Syrup reserve. I really do need to watch it.
Also features Scott Tucker of Level 5 racing fame/payday loan infamy in one of the episodes. I'll have to give the series a watch.
Watched the Tucker, Pharma, and Trump ones so far. Good series, well worth watching. Risk of flounder prevents discussion of last episode probably.
The Tucker and Pharma ones are very good examples of the result of the weaknesses of capitalism to those devoid of ethics. Would you be willing to make a decision to benefit yourself if you knew it would hurt others? Are you willing to overlook the possibility of hurting others in order to make more money?
The Tucker one correlates in a bit of how in racing you go looking for loopholes and exploit them, but the problem with applying that carte blanche is that racing is a game, while money can destroy people. He might not have ever thought about the ethics of what he was doing and likely had convinced himself it was legal. Dosent make it right.
Made me think back on some early professional choices I made, one where I had a college job where I was being pushed (in a commission sales environment) to sell something that I knew was scientifically bunk and ineffective. It made me decide that I could NEVER work in a sales environment as my personal ethics hamstrung me vs others.
My wife also had at least two experiences where she quit jobs because she ethically couldnt bring herself to do them. One was lieing to job applicants to suck them in to interview for door to door sales pressuring people into higher priced telecom plans (owner of the small company, contracted with big well known company, was asking her to use her personal credit card to rent him a car as but one example of a red flag). Other one was working at a location for a well known automotive maintenance chain, where they would throw extra charges on unknowledgeable customers bills and sell unnecessary services. Her manager pushed her to do it, she walked.
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