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If I pack air, sell it as panacea, and employ 150k people doing that, do I deserve to be be in business?

• salex89 8y ago
  If you can actually pay 150k people, maybe you do, since you're bloody good at it! Joke aside, let's be fair, Boeing did not sell air. Their greed got the better of them, and the institutions set to prevent that did not do their job. They should take responsibility for the things they did (or in this case, did not). There is no penalty high enough to bring back lives.
  • rubinelli 8y ago
    I wish there was a law to nationalize a company that was found guilty of gross negligence, to subsequently pay damages and re-sell them in the market. Make shareholders accountable, instead of sending a couple of middle managers to jail and keeping the same incentives that caused the first tragedy in place.
    • Rooster61 8y ago
      > instead of sending a couple of middle managers to jail So you want to turn the company over to the same governmental body that lets companies get off by firing a few middle managers? The same body that possibly allowed this lapse in safety to get through regulations in the first place?
      • rubinelli 8y ago
        Temporarily, yes. It doesn't have to be the same government agency, and the aim would be to divest as fast as possible, so hopefully less short-sighted and more responsible shareholders would control it in the end.
  • salawat 8y ago
    Has the Overton window shifted so much that the idea of a somehow successful company that produces 0 positive value by selling a completely fake product is legitimately humorous or an appropriate subject for levity? Perhaps my sense of humor is broken but I find the fact that jest was even made quite alarming. I'm used to playing word games, and taking refuge in audacity...but damn.