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This is why I believe in corporate death sentences. You ship millions of cars that don't actually slowly poison the drivers but the people on the side of the r
by ck2 11y ago
This is why I believe in corporate death sentences.
You ship millions of cars that don't actually slowly poison the drivers but the people on the side of the road instead, you should have more than a little justice coming your way.
- paulojreis 11y agoYeah, it's actually plausible that this kind of white-collar crimes cause more death than a single homicide. It certainly smells like impunity. Big corps are actually very good at making sure that there's no one to complain and no one to blame (from customer service to this kind of executive maneuver).
- 7952 11y agoHeres how you test emissions for a car. Lock the executives in an unventilated room with the engine running for half an hour. If they survuve it is ok to release to the public. Obviously I am joking, but it should be the goal to have no dirty emmissions at all.
- saint_fiasco 11y agoThey'll just make it so their cars run cleaner when executives are around.
- Gravityloss 11y agoMaybe you could trick the car to run in low emissions mode by having a scarecrow in an expensive suit and a pillow under the shirt. You would have to place these every hundred meters in a neighborhood.
- rhino369 11y agoIt would be a bad idea to shut the company down totally, but if you wanted to enact a death sentence, just cease the shares and auction them off again. The company still operates--which allows employees to keep their jobs and the economy doesn't take a huge GDP hit--but the owners pay the price.
- jessaustin 11y agoHow would this proposal solve any problems? The executives of the firm are the ones who, ahem, actually decided to break the law. Why should they keep their freedom, to say nothing of their jobs? The various index funds and pension plans that you want to penalize were never informed of the scheme.
- rhino369 11y agoNew ownership would presumably clean house. And this wouldn't prevent those who were involved from being charged as well for their individual role. >The various index funds and pension plans that you want to penalize were never informed of the scheme. I only meant this how you'd carry out a corporate death penalty without hurting third parties. Any corporate death penalty would wipe these share holders out anyway.