• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Madoff was straight up ponzi scheme fraud, not profit maximisation.

    Enron guys were fraudulently booking future possible revenues as certainties.

    Deliberate illegal misrepresentation is very different from making a (possibly) sub optimal business decision.