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Sure, but a lot of the folks making these mistakes inside of companies also don’t care about getting better, just getting paid. If you wanted every such type o
by mlthoughts2018 7y ago
Sure, but a lot of the folks making these mistakes inside of companies also don’t care about getting better, just getting paid.
If you wanted every such type of mistake to be susceptible to crimimal or civil litigation, boy, you’d be legislating morality for one (deciding exactly when someone can value money or believe a certain risk is worthwhile), and have almost no way to enforce it (how can you prove a sincere mistake I “learned from” vs negligence I never cared about, without something like smoking gun email admissions or something?), and further no competent people will agree to do these jobs if they feel they cannot have a perfectly healthy and normal process of making mistakes without great risk someone will try to turn it into a lawsuit or criminal charges?
You might say these are all matters of degree, and you just use targeted legislation to make it punishable according to specific guidelines, but it’s just a giant slippery slope, and very susceptible to political subversion for people who have the same malicious intent only operating on the regulatory or legislative side rather than in private firms.
It’s a huge moral hazard problem, but one that can really only be solved by rare, upstanding management, and hardly ever by litigation.
- chillacy 7y ago> making these mistakes inside of companies also don’t care about getting better, just getting paid. I guess that's the problem, but at least for people who are competent today, they got there by failing and learning. > If you wanted every such type of mistake to be susceptible to crimimal or civil litigation No I don't, that's bad for all the reasons you said. Rather I'm all for letting people deal with the consequences of their decisions so that they learn over time. That's a structural change. Some examples: * Engineers who write the code should also test/debug it * UX designers should regularly see new users trying their products I haven't thought too much of the case for CEOs but I imagine it's similar. At least in the startup world CEOs with a failed company under their belt are more valued than those with no experience.