One of the voices in my head is my FIL who’s an ardent capitalist who’s not afraid to say really horrid shit, so I always run these things by that voice.

He said the rich guy has to take more risks (to create the jobs we all depend on to survive and eat) so over time, he’s more likely to take financial risks that might be less than black and white. He doesn’t think it was really fraud anyway. This guy might just have been swept up in Biden’s crazy red-tape bonanza, like all the financial regulations that well-meaning Democrats implemented that will destroy our economy. Meanwhile the homeless guy has slipped through the cracks so many times, arrested and walking free the next day, at taxpayer expense - committing a crime every other day in the process, also at our expense - and that these homeless guys, when you count up how many there are in every city in town, cost us far more than the white collar crime in total anyway - so getting him off the street into a correctional facility where he can get sober and learn some occupational skills is really a kindness to everyone involved. Anyway some bleeding heart judge will let him out after a few months, like they always do, so it doesn’t really matter. But if you REALLY want to get thinking, if that homeless man hadn’t been the victim of a public school system that taught him to be lazy, and society reinforced that by giving him enough welfare that he never had to have a job, but took taxes when he did… Well, would he be homeless today?

And that’s why I don’t hang out with my inlaws.