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The Laundromat
2019 · Film · 96 min
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawyers in Panama who hide cash for the superrich.
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"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato
"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim." - Bertrand Russell
Honestly those are the only nuggets of wisdom I can think about when I look at all the tax havens. The movie The Laundromat was also quite instructive.
The end of the cold war moved the ideological cursor "organized economy versus libertarian economy".
Governments are struggling hard to save their model so they can function properly. I really have a hard time seeing how this won't create problems, this is globalization at work. Not sure if states/borders will disappear.
> Small countries need someway to compete for global talent,
Lower corporate taxes have not resulted in "talent" moving to those countries. It's all legal maneuvering. This is tax evasion 101 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laundromat_(film)).
I watched "Laundromat" (*movie about the Panama Papers), towards the end of the movie, Antonio Banderas says: "In... In retrospect, uh... I think we... we could have spent more on cyber-security."
An exception is the Netflix movie, "The Laundromat", which deserves wider viewing.
It starts off like quirky satire, and then it morphs into actual lampooning of two specific real lawyers by name. They sued to suppress the movie and then lost. A journalist writing about the papers was killed in a car bomb.