"Big thieves hang small ones." —a Czech proverb If you steal millions you get bonuses and you are among "our betters"; you are a wealth creator. When you mismanage, we bail you out with taxpayers money. If you plunder or help plunder a whole country, it is called "development" or protecting an ally. We even give you asylum in three months. If you steal $50 dollars, you spend (at least) 36 years in prison . For stealing $1, you need to afford a $12,000 bail . And it is even worse of you are a poor person of colour. If you steal a £3.50-pack of bottled water or a pack of chewing gum, you get 6 months prison sentence. (Britain 2011) And when the world’s top 25 hedge fund managers earned $13bn in 2015 (the latest year available) – more than the entire economies of Namibia, the Bahamas or Nicaragua, it was not consideed theft, but "a fairly-determined market income."
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51