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For most people, white collar crime is relatively abstract. Something to be outraged about when you hear it on the news, but not something that you can feel af

For most people, white collar crime is relatively abstract. Something to be outraged about when you hear it on the news, but not something that you can feel affecting you personally. Blue collar crime, especially the kind that occurs at a personal level, is more visceral. People really want to see those people kept away from them, more than they want to see rehabilitation. Whether rehabilitation would lead to better long-term outcomes gets ignored. The Boeing situation is a little different, of course, since it really did kill a bunch of people.

lotsofpulp 6y ago
>since it really did kill a bunch of people. No one can prove a specific Boeing executive's actions caused people to die. There would have to be an email from the executive stating "I think we should cut costs here and here and I acknowledge this may cause x% of passengers to die". And they're not going to put something like this in an email either: "Meet with the guy that used to work for us who now works at the FAA and get him to waive or lower so and so standards so this plane can fly and we'll owe him".
- rootusrootus 6y ago
  Perhaps one of the risks that executives at a high level (i.e. named corporate officers) have to bear in return for their absurd salaries is criminal liability when the corporation commits a crime. This might help align the incentives.