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Corporations in a lot of ways are just diffusions of responsibility. They are also diffusions of culpability. I like to think that the best way to determine cu

Corporations in a lot of ways are just diffusions of responsibility. They are also diffusions of culpability. I like to think that the best way to determine culpability for crimes/misdeeds of a corporation is by pay scale, including total benefits. So the CEO earning 200x the common worker at a company bears 200x the culpability of a worker. Billionaires have amassed an astounding quantity of wealth. I'd be very interested to see how much of that wealth was "earned" by actions, how much was grown based purely off capital investments, and how much in total that can trace its roots to dirty money (earned by underpaying, skirting regulations, negative externalities, other questionably legal activity). Do they have any responsibility for that?

Jensson 3y ago
> I like to think that the best way to determine culpability for crimes/misdeeds of a corporation is by pay scale, including total benefits. So the CEO earning 200x the common worker at a company bears 200x the culpability of a worker. Then you should also argue that the CEO gets 200x the credit for all the good things companies does, and then they are clearly in the green and a massive benefit to society. > Corporations in a lot of ways are just diffusions of responsibility. They are also diffusions of culpability. So are governments, just that governments are way larger and therefore way better at hiding things. The biggest pro for governments is that they are less efficient, so they are better at not making things worse in fields where private corporations would try to make things worse as efficiently as possible like healthcare or education. You need some extremely hardworking and creative people to come up with the American healthcare system, a government would have a hard time inventing something like that.

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Corporations in a lot of ways are just diffusions of responsibility. They are also diffusions of culpability. I like to think that the best way to determine cu

by fireflash38 3y ago

Jensson 3y ago
> I like to think that the best way to determine culpability for crimes/misdeeds of a corporation is by pay scale, including total benefits. So the CEO earning 200x the common worker at a company bears 200x the culpability of a worker. Then you should also argue that the CEO gets 200x the credit for all the good things companies does, and then they are clearly in the green and a massive benefit to society. > Corporations in a lot of ways are just diffusions of responsibility. They are also diffusions of culpability. So are governments, just that governments are way larger and therefore way better at hiding things. The biggest pro for governments is that they are less efficient, so they are better at not making things worse in fields where private corporations would try to make things worse as efficiently as possible like healthcare or education. You need some extremely hardworking and creative people to come up with the American healthcare system, a government would have a hard time inventing something like that.