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We got used to companies abusing processes and not being punished. Just look at how all Big Tech companies systematically break laws and happily pays the fines
by lanevorockz 5y ago
We got used to companies abusing processes and not being punished. Just look at how all Big Tech companies systematically break laws and happily pays the fines for these crimes.
- amarant 5y agoBut if they pay the fine, haven't they been punished? Whether punishment was sufficient is a different question.
- KozmoNau7 5y agoPart of the social contract of punishment, is that you stop doing the thing you got punished for.
- ivalm 5y agoWe live in a society where it is important that people follow the spirit of the social contract. Acting in bad faith is bad even if you pay your punishment or if the action uses a loophole keeping you on the right side of the law. The world is too complex to fully codify in rules and punishments, abusing loopholes (or taking punishment as cost of business) is still reprehensible. I do agree we should try to increase punishment/close loopholes when possible, it’s just always will be a losing battle.
- joquarky 5y agoWhen they look at fines as just the cost of doing business, we are failing to resolve the problem.