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If it's illegal how do corporations get away with it? Genuine question.

NikolaNovak 4y ago
People and companies get away with illegal stuff until / unless caught, prosecuted and punished. You indicate its a genuine question, but I feel you'd have to have just landed on this planet for that to be the case. In kindergarten there are rules, and not everybody who doesn't follow them gets caught. Or if you have siblings, surely you've noticed they would sometimes get away with stuff - unfairly and agonizingly so. And onward it goes with life.
- DiggyJohnson 4y ago
  This is poetic, well put.
- throwntoday 4y ago
  I don't get the hostility. It was a genuine question because my assumption is any sufficiently large corporation is aware of the legal implications, and are a bigger target for litigation. I know that corporations break laws, there's no need to be flippant.
  - NikolaNovak 4y ago
    It was not hostile; but, both questions still seem either disingenuous, or naive (noting that your original question as stated was "how do they get away with it", not "how come some corporations break the law"). As I think Patio11 recently said on another topic - unless you can name a person or role, we should challenge our internal assumptions that "somebody somewhere is keeping track | investigating | doing something about it". There is SO much going on in the world. And unfortunately, a lot of people / companies try to get away with a lot of stuff all the time. So an unbelievable amount slips through. Some of it gets noticed eventually. I'm increasingly saddened by my awareness of how much (vast majority) does not. Maybe I'm too cynical without knowing it, but based on cursory reading of virtually any news, companies (and/or their leadership, depending on one's framework) do frequently engage in questionable or clearly illegal behaviour, based on their values, needs, priorities, and assessment of risk vs reward.
a4isms 4y ago
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AlexandrB 4y ago
Same way I was able to jaywalk yesterday - lack of enforcement.

People and companies get away with illegal stuff until / unless caught, prosecuted and punished. You indicate its a genuine question, but I feel you'd have to have just landed on this planet for that to be the case. In kindergarten there are rules, and not everybody who doesn't follow them gets caught. Or if you have siblings, surely you've noticed they would sometimes get away with stuff - unfairly and agonizingly so. And onward it goes with life.

DiggyJohnson 4y ago
This is poetic, well put.
throwntoday 4y ago
I don't get the hostility. It was a genuine question because my assumption is any sufficiently large corporation is aware of the legal implications, and are a bigger target for litigation. I know that corporations break laws, there's no need to be flippant.
- NikolaNovak 4y ago
  It was not hostile; but, both questions still seem either disingenuous, or naive (noting that your original question as stated was "how do they get away with it", not "how come some corporations break the law"). As I think Patio11 recently said on another topic - unless you can name a person or role, we should challenge our internal assumptions that "somebody somewhere is keeping track | investigating | doing something about it". There is SO much going on in the world. And unfortunately, a lot of people / companies try to get away with a lot of stuff all the time. So an unbelievable amount slips through. Some of it gets noticed eventually. I'm increasingly saddened by my awareness of how much (vast majority) does not. Maybe I'm too cynical without knowing it, but based on cursory reading of virtually any news, companies (and/or their leadership, depending on one's framework) do frequently engage in questionable or clearly illegal behaviour, based on their values, needs, priorities, and assessment of risk vs reward.

a4isms 4y ago

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AlexandrB 4y ago

Same way I was able to jaywalk yesterday - lack of enforcement.