"There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks," (the police lieutenant) said. "Maybe the head man thinks his hands are clean but somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them and had to sell out for nickels, decent people lost their jobs, stocks got rigged on the market, proxies got bought up like a pennyweight of old gold, and the five per centers and the big law firms got paid hundred grand fees for beating some law the people wanted but the rich guys didn't, on account of it cut into their profits. Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong, it's the system. Maybe it's the best we can get, but it still ain't my Ivory Soap deal."
This is a quote from The Long Good-bye, written by Raymond Chandler and published in 1953. Things haven't changed much in the last sixty years.
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