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Hunter’s Corner
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The legal shambles behind our supermarket superprofits

ANALYSIS: Legislators and regulators have failed us, but lawyers have done worse.

Tim Hunter Fri, 11 Mar 2022

Corporations are like cats. Not in the sense of purring and sleeping a lot – more in the sense of being instinctive predators.

You can put a bell on Tibbles to keep the death toll down but you can’t change his nature.

The corporation, likewise, is driven by a basic urge – the profit motive.

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Tim Hunter Fri, 11 Mar 2022
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