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Because "higher level people" are the ones who make the decisions to do things like this, and they nearly always get away with it. The engineers who added the s
by marcelluspye 9y ago
Because "higher level people" are the ones who make the decisions to do things like this, and they nearly always get away with it. The engineers who added the system are responsible, too, but at the end of the day, if they had said no VW would have found someone else to do it.
When companies act against the interest of the societies in which they exist, it's at the direction of executives, managers, or other "higher level people." If they're caught, their punishments sometimes don't even negate their wrongdoing, let alone match up to crimes which are generally less harmful to the rest of the world. They get away with it, and when they don't, it's not that bad for them. The lack of justice is infuriating.
- randyrand 9y ago> Because "higher level people" are the ones who make the decisions to do things like this That's a big assumption, IMO. It's quite a huge assumption on how high it actually goes. > and they nearly always get away with it. Based on on your presumption of guilt? I don't support presuming the guiltiness of top level executives that had no idea "because they should have known." Its reminiscent of a witch hunt.
- s73ver_ 9y agoWrong. They get paid the amount of money they do because they are supposed to be in charge. Because they are "taking responsibility." If they are not responsible, then they should not get those amounts of money. If they are responsible, then they get the entirety of responsibility, not just the benefits.