> Construction companies circumvent this by going bankrupt all the time and setting up the next shell company. This would be a much more difficult thing for th

> Construction companies circumvent this by going bankrupt all the time and setting up the next shell company. This would be a much more difficult thing for them to do if it was easy to track the history of bad behavior of the relevant people. This seems like something that should be relatively easy to do nowadays, module some probably not-too-significant obstacles like the 'right to be forgotten'. > Big projects will often be done by a pool of companies. Which would you hold accountable then. In the absence of detailed information, one would reasonably hold them all partially accountable. > As well, some things are so bad that you don't want to punish after the fact. There's no perfect way to do this. Murder seems like it's "so bad that you don't want to punish after the fact" but I don't think either of us would want to live in a society that was perfectly capable of preventing any murders.