I sympathize with your experience, dog. A cursory glance at what's been happening in the world in most areas of human concern over the last century shows that even the slightest ... faith ... that we can correct what appear to be permanent flaws in human nature is a waste of time. While bona fide civilized behavior cannot be taught, it's even more difficult to learn in areas of human activity that focus on money. While there's no difference between a punk who robs a convenience store at midnight and an institutional swindler who macgyvers rules to fix his godsend, the problem we face is that the punk will sit in prison for ten years or more while the culture will recognize the swindler's "godsend" and call it civilized. Two hundred years ago, civilizations had notions of singular "accountability." In our postmodern era, "accountability" is subjective, negating the meaning of the word, nullifying it in practice. In BioAmber's case, somebody made off like a bandit. For us with the long view, expectations based on regulated possibilities lend us hope. We reject living in a world without hope, as St. Paul suggests in Ephesians 2:12. Living without hope is a ghastly way to live. Indeed, hope brings meaning to everything that happens in our lives. Unfortunately, as civilization dissipates, the world in 2018 was far different from the world in 2025, and going forward. Yet .... hope need not dissipate. The world may be catching up to swindlers. If hope does not dissipate, then "accountability" will not dissipate ... completely. This leaves us with our faith in BioAmber in 2018 being still viable.
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