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The issue is economy of scale. Prosecuting a company for wrongdoing is an expensive undertaking, and startups ultimately may not have the capital to justify a p
by fixermark 9y ago
The issue is economy of scale. Prosecuting a company for wrongdoing is an expensive undertaking, and startups ultimately may not have the capital to justify a prosecution---if the prosecutor wins, what then? The startup pays out its no-money, probably no-one goes to jail, and the founders just go found another company? There doesn't appear to be much of a back-stop on bad behavior.
(It's an exercise for the reader to determine whether "startup agility" and "disruption" are just polite synonyms for "taking advantage of the framework's weaknesses to dodge the legal and ethical responsibilities that big companies cannot afford to dodge" ;) ).