Hello and welcome to episode 184 of the Thinking El-Sat podcast in Los Angeles.

I'm Nathan Fox with me at home in

Vienna, Virginia. Ben Olson, Ben what's up with this college admissions

scandal? I don't know I was thinking about it I was actually trying to think about how people who do this end up getting caught

But I guess you do it for a little while right and then it's an easy way to make money, so it just, it's kind of like those

golden handcuffs for lawyers, right? You get the money and then you don't see another way of making the money so you keep going you keep going it gets bigger and bigger and then

People start getting wind of it and now you're hosed

It's a good argument against even starting with any kind of shady dealings because once you get addicted to that money, then yeah, you get stuck and then eventually it all comes crashing down or you become the

president of the United States I don't know. Oh yeah yeah I was thinking

about too he probably has good legal, which is a little ironic because he has that good legal counsel

because he was fraudulent, right?

Like, that money is that he's got somewhere

is paying for this council somehow.

Of course, yeah.

Well, I mean, that's never changed, right?

No, no, I just, I don't know, it's kind of just,

you make the system seem a little,

yeah, a little more weighted to unfairness or something like you're because good counsel makes a

difference in your outcome right like and you're basically cheating and then

paying top dollar to avoid the consequences of that cheating.

That's nothing new, of course, you're right.

The, were you, people were emailing me yesterday like wanting my reaction to this whole thing?

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