Re: Market abuse...
"We really need to have a look at our economic model"
"Why!?"
"Well, our customer base is shrinking"
"And that's to be expected. Don't worry, an equilibrium will be found and that customer base will stabilise soon enough"
"But what about the accusations that we are murderers? That doesn't sit well with me one bit"
"It is the market that is doing the murdering. Not us. We just sell vegetable oil to the highest bidder. And just because the highest bidder happens to be the petrochemical industry, and not the food industry, then who are we to make a judgement?"
"Two thirds of the world can no longer afford cooking oil, because the other third are filling their cars up with it, and that is leading to famine and malnutrition. Life expectancy is falling and we are directly involved"
"Bloody socialist. Why don't you accept my offer to buy you out, and then your soft namby pamby conscience will be troubled no more!"
"Because I have a conscience! There's no way I'm leaving a sociopath like you in charge, to let your inhuman ideas run amok"
"So let governments sort it out then"
"You mean the people we have been buying off left right and centre from the very beginning. They're more inhuman than you will ever be"
"Mmm. I'm not sure I like that unintended compliment. I'll need to run that through my AI program some more. Perhaps I'm due a software update..."