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I've long believed that when companies do illegal things that would normally be punished by prison, the company should go to prison. The company office would h
by paulproteus 7y ago
I've long believed that when companies do illegal things that would normally be punished by prison, the company should go to prison.
The company office would have to operate according to the same rules as a prison. Employees on arrival are security-checked the same way prisoners would be when they arrive for the first time. Rules about talking between cells, and device use, are the same as a prison. Once you get to your prison office, and you have your prison clothes on, you can work on paper.
I think this should be an existing prison. If a company wants to instead hire prison guards and do renovations to make their existing office work like a prison, I could be flexible to that.
Presumably all the employees would rather quit than work in prison. Sounds okay to me.
Presumably all investors would pressure the CEO to avoid getting the company put in prison because it would be a real productivity problem. Sounds okay to me.
- KarlKemp 7y agoYeah, you should maybe work on whatever causes these revenge phantasies. It doesn’t seem healthy. On a factual level, I’d just like to point out that "illegal" isn’t (always) equal to "criminal“.
- jkaplowitz 7y agoWhen a corporation is convicted of a crime rather than merely breaking the law in a lesser way, what do you think is the appropriate punishment? I'm not sure myself, but the imbalance in consequences vs an individual convicted of the same crime does feel quite wrong to me.
- bigiain 7y agoI dunno, if society want to continue using it's phantasies of "corporate personhood" which allows companies to do illegal and/or criminal things while somehow protecting the actual people who made the decisions that lead to them, why not "imprison" companies like this? If, for example, _I_ collected and then gave away to a business connection personal information on 87 million people - you can bet I'd be fined more than ~1% of my nett worth for it, and probably spend time in jail too.. Companies continually getting away with shady shit with zero or insignificant consequences are the "cause" of such "revenge phantasies". Suggesting ways to stop that seems like a valid thing to work on...