> I think both alternatives suck in different ways, but as a business I'd probably choose ROI over fair. Understandable. And probably even common. That's why s

> I think both alternatives suck in different ways, but as a business I'd probably choose ROI over fair. Understandable. And probably even common. That's why society should be adding disincentives--and that the people running most businesses do not suffer clawing panic attacks at the disincentivizing retribution appropriate for this behavior is indicative that we do not make businesses fear bad behavior nearly enough in this country. Nor, really, do we nearly often enough puncture the fictive-person boundary to reach the decision-makers themselves. I say this a lot around here and it never stops being true: society lets the corporation exist. There's a grant of power and a grant of trust inherent in a corporate charter and the advantages therein. Every member and executive of a corporation should fear the everloving daylights out of betraying that public trust. And yet at this point we almost take for granted that betraying the public trust is what corporations do.