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Okay, so it's okay to go after an engineer at VW for gaming the system, and causing higher emissions than everyone thought, but not okay to go after bankers for
by JohnGB 9y ago
Okay, so it's okay to go after an engineer at VW for gaming the system, and causing higher emissions than everyone thought, but not okay to go after bankers for fraud which screwed the world economy?
I'm not saying that the engineer shouldn't be responsible - he should - but it's an extreme double standard.
- ju-st 9y agoBanks are too big to fail in the US. German car companies are not too big to fail in the US.
- taneq 9y agoI'm starting to think that the measure of "too big to fail" is campaign donations, not percentage of GDP or something.
- b4lancesh33t 9y agoNon-flippant answer, in case this question is genuine: there are no laws against what any individual banker did, or else there is insufficient evidence to prosecute the bankers under any law they hypothetically broke. Not so with this engineer.
- atc 9y ago"What they did was technically legal" etc etc Anyway, I think it makes sense to prosecute _everyone_ involved, not just (but at least) the senior management who were responsible. If you send the message that everyone along the chain of events -- including the software engineers that are all the more relevant in today's products -- that this shit isn't ok, then aren't people going to fight against these sorts of goings-on?