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While "just as bad" is a useless statement (ethics can't be quantified like this) I'd argue that's it's a worthwhile sentiment. Not all white collar crime is s
by DoughnutHole 4y ago
While "just as bad" is a useless statement (ethics can't be quantified like this) I'd argue that's it's a worthwhile sentiment.
Not all white collar crime is stories of underdogs swindling faceless corporations. Some crimes destroy the life savings of thousands of people, ruin thousands of livelihoods. Mass incidences of fraud can bring down entire economies like in 2008 - it's not direct but it will certainly cause far more death and misery than any one stabbing.
- bombcar 4y agoPrachett has a good look at it in his book Going Postal - each “victimless crime” just has its victims spread over a large number of people. You’re slicing hours/days from people instead of lifetimes.
- blobbers 4y agoSo when windows blue screens 67,000 times and we have to wait 100s for a reboot (78 people years) is that the equivalent of an auto manufacturer killing someone? They didn’t do their job, and now the world is on hold for them. No, life goes on.
- kelnos 4y agoI think that's another reason why "white collar crime" is too broad a category. Some WCC has real regular-Joe victims that are hurt (think financial crimes like Ponzi schemes), and the people who perpetrate those sorts of crimes should have the book thrown at them. But other WCC is like what we're seeing here. The Switch is still ridiculously profitable for Nintendo despite copyright infringement. I'd prefer to live in a society where companies were forced to just accept small-scale (when compared to total revenue) infringement as a cost of doing business.