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Unfortunately the companies manage to wriggle out of all liability by saying they are bankrupt or transferring to a new company structure. https://www.reuters.

Unfortunately the companies manage to wriggle out of all liability by saying they are bankrupt or transferring to a new company structure. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsonandjohnson-cancer/ https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsona... https://www.lawsuit-information-center.com/2-billion-verdict-in-missouri-motivates-jj-to-settle-talcum-powder-lawsuits.html https://www.lawsuit-information-center.com/2-billion-verdict... $200,000 per victim for knowingly being given cancer. Obscene. I think China executing people is much closer to justice than our system.

ordinaryradical 3y ago
Something like a real solution is to create a way to reintroduce personal liability for executive teams in cases like this where extraordinary harm is done. Human beings need to have their own assets and personal well being at risk, otherwise the incentives for perpetrating mass pollution are too lucrative. Jail and financial annihilation are basically the only ways to try to counterbalance the massive upside you can get from sociopathic behavior like this. We need to start treating this more like fraud, but perpetrated as a form of violence.
- MarkMarine 3y ago
  I completely agree
atoav 3y ago
So if I want to legally murder people I can do it if I create corporation and create a plausible deniable way of killing them? Cool. Certainly a good system. If the hardest punishment is a fine, it becomes a fee for rich people.