Let’s not forget Jardine Matheson, who in 1840 persuaded the British government to start a war with the Qing Dynasty over their right to keep addicting the Chinese population to opium[1][2].

The Brits got lots of mileage out of that one - Hong Kong for starters, and HSBC, which continues its storied tradition of facilitating immorality to this very day [3][4]. JM itself diversified after the wars and the company lives on as “a multinational conglomerate... with legal domicile in Bermuda”.

Kids, if you want to make it big without actually having to challenge yourself too much, make sure you stick to large-scale, officially-sanctioned crimes against othered groups of humans. That way, you get the George W. Bush treatment instead of accountability!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jardine_Matheson_....

[2] https://www.eiu.edu/historia/Cassan.pdf

[3] HSBC money laundering report: Key findings http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18880269

[4] https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/hsbc-moved-...