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Before you advocate punishing private company managers, consider holding government employees, managers, and politicians to the same standard. Every manager in

by dpatru 7y ago

Before you advocate punishing private company managers, consider holding government employees, managers, and politicians to the same standard. Every manager in government should be sure that the people who report to him or her are following the law, else, the manager gets fined and goes to jail.

no_wizard 7y ago
I don't think anyone is saying this shouldn't be the case either. Its also red herring, to be completely honest. I would even argue that much of the corruption we see in politics is in large part because private companies can get away with so much with so little consequence in the first place. In either case, I 100% agree with the assertion here.
upofadown 7y ago
That would be considered corruption and would be normally be persecuted as government employees are considered to have a duty of care to the public they serve.
- briandear 7y ago
  > government employees are considered to have a duty of care to the public they serve. Which public? A building inspector serves the public but can make a new business owner’s life hell with arbitrary interpretations of the rules. That business owner is just as much “the public” as a random citizen. So if a business opening is delayed because some inspector drags his feet, loses paperwork, or goes on vacation, that isn’t “corruption,” but it does have a material impact on the business owner. So perhaps that building inspector should go to jail for not approving construction quickly enough? If a building permit office loses or misplaces paperwork (which happens all the time,) should that entire office be imprisoned? If not, why not? Surely causing significant construction delays for a small business has more impact that some random App Store decisions. It’s optional to deal with Apple, you don’t have a choice when dealing with government.

by dpatru 7y ago

no_wizard 7y ago

I don't think anyone is saying this shouldn't be the case either. Its also red herring, to be completely honest. I would even argue that much of the corruption we see in politics is in large part because private companies can get away with so much with so little consequence in the first place. In either case, I 100% agree with the assertion here.

upofadown 7y ago

That would be considered corruption and would be normally be persecuted as government employees are considered to have a duty of care to the public they serve.

briandear 7y ago
> government employees are considered to have a duty of care to the public they serve. Which public? A building inspector serves the public but can make a new business owner’s life hell with arbitrary interpretations of the rules. That business owner is just as much “the public” as a random citizen. So if a business opening is delayed because some inspector drags his feet, loses paperwork, or goes on vacation, that isn’t “corruption,” but it does have a material impact on the business owner. So perhaps that building inspector should go to jail for not approving construction quickly enough? If a building permit office loses or misplaces paperwork (which happens all the time,) should that entire office be imprisoned? If not, why not? Surely causing significant construction delays for a small business has more impact that some random App Store decisions. It’s optional to deal with Apple, you don’t have a choice when dealing with government.