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Jail seems a little extreme, the punishment doesn't fit the crime here.

• Apocryphon 8y ago
  Powerful corporate elites need a deterrent. If only more financial evildoers had joined Bernie Madoff in prison after 2008.
  • onetimemanytime 8y ago
    Money, and not $2 million settlement fine after spending $20mm on lawyers for 4 years. Take EVERYTHING from them, clawback. And fine companies 10-20% of their REVENUE. Announce rev share with any whistle-blower, just give proof to DOJ and get 25% of the fine.
  • jbob2000 8y ago
    There are two outcomes to this: 1, where quality executives say "fuck this" and the only people who hold the roles are fall men for invisible puppet masters. or 2, the role is split up over a bunch of departments so nobody can be held responsible. The side effect of this is that the products the company produces become much more expensive.
    • Apocryphon 8y ago
      1. The law, and its enforcers, are presumably flexible enough to not simply prosecute the figureheads, but any accompanying accomplices as well. Puppets can be made to accept plea bargains and squeal. 2. Corporations are people, my friend, and should be punished accordingly as persons, if there isn't an actual human that can be made liable. And given the current fracases over outsourcing, immigration, big box chain stores, vertical integration, monopolies, ad-funded tech, etc., etc., it isn't simply to shoot down a proposal simply because "the products become much more expensive." Not even the public is as simply mollified by cheaper goods as they were a decade or two ago.
    • ArrayList 8y ago
      > quality executives No such thing.