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which is one of the many reasons why corporations should not be counted as people and allowed a political voice.
by sethammons 2y ago
which is one of the many reasons why corporations should not be counted as people and allowed a political voice.
- dragonwriter 2y agoIf corporations weren't counted as people, they couldn't be held criminally liable when, viewed as a single entity, they had the requisite combination of knowledge ans action to be guilty of a crime, but where none of the constituent individuals considered alone did.
- sethammons 2y agoa corporation being held criminally liable holds about as much as a wet paper bag. It is an accounting issue; the cost of doing business. Absolute worst case scenario for the business: it folds. "Oh well, killed people; guess we need to make a new company." There is a lack of _personal_ accountability. Hold executives criminally liable. Fine companies, sure, but if people die from gross negligence or due to processes endorsed by leadership, that should end with prison time as a warning to others. Don't let them say they didn't know and that the decisions were spread out over people and time. The buck stops with leadership -- that is, ostensibly, why they make the big bucks. If they couldn't know due to spread out decision making then they set up and perpetuated the wrong system.