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Quite similar to how these things happen in corporations. No exec ever makes a decision to violate the law, they just put underlings into stressful situations w
by throwaway7767 11y ago
Quite similar to how these things happen in corporations. No exec ever makes a decision to violate the law, they just put underlings into stressful situations where they can't achieve the set goals without doing so.
The people at the top can then say they knew nothing of it, and they're shocked, shocked, that their employees would do such a thing.
- protomyth 11y ago"No exec ever makes a decision to violate the law" That's a bit far fetched. Execs do decide to violate the law, check some of the court cases on HN.
- unsignedint 11y agoTheir "contract" between their pseudo kinship makes it very difficult for someone in the lower hierarchy to blame their upper, let alone whistle blow, about such wrongdoing without very severe consequences. Many of clan members would voluntarily accept imprisonment by limiting blame to themselves instead of to their upper or their immediate upper would pressure for them to do so, which I don't necessarily think the case for corporations. (I wouldn't say this doesn't exist, though.)