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At the end of the day you have to punish a human. And following your suggestion would punish a lot of uninvolved humans.
by ars 6y ago
At the end of the day you have to punish a human. And following your suggestion would punish a lot of uninvolved humans.
- ljf 6y agoCompanies go bankrupt all the time and we don't worry about the workers (unless they are 'too big to fail' banks). It would change workers relationships with companies a lot and would likely encourage companies to break themselves up into parts. Might be good anti-monopoly move?
- markus_zhang 6y agoYou can put the executives into jails though. And the executives, not some low level manager as a scapegoat.
- ars 6y agoCertainly, but the person I was replying to suggested shutting down a company, rather than punishing execs.
- markus_zhang 6y agoIt's doable too. The workers will lose job for sure, but many of them are going to find new ones, plus you extract as much $$ as possible from the company and exec to pay the workers.
- anonymousab 6y agoInnocent people are affected when almost anyone is sent to jail. Families and friends and dependants and so on. The bigger and more important you are, the more people are affected by both you breaking the law and you being punished with imprisonment for doing so. A corporation is only different in scale.
- ars 6y agoAnd because jail is sometimes a bad thing that means we should keep doing the bad thing? I have seen a couple cases of someone punished for a white collar crime sent to jail, effectively a vacation, while his family suffers terribly. They punished the wrong person and I feel it's a travesty. Jail is not the right punishment for nonviolent offenses.