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I do not care about the economy bottom line. I want deaths of people caused by the arguably same motivation of penny-pinching and ever-growing profits translate
by kristjank 2y ago
I do not care about the economy bottom line. I want deaths of people caused by the arguably same motivation of penny-pinching and ever-growing profits translate into at the very least jail times of people that represented and concurred with these horrendously dangerous decisions.
When economists are left alone too long, their results do not differ very much from those of serial killers.
- keiferski 2y agoThe real world isn’t that simple. If you just dismantled Boeing and sent everyone to jail, thousands of people would lose their jobs. America would lose a competitive edge compared to foreign adversaries. As I said in the original comment, the difficulty is in punishing the people responsible while maintaining/rebuilding systems that have better outcomes. Blowing everything up doesn’t do that.
- Dah00n 2y ago>America would lose a competitive edge compared to foreign adversaries. So murder is okay in a private company if it is important enough for "a competitive edge"? That means specifically that they are above the law.
- keiferski 2y agoDid I say that? I said it’s complicated and the world isn’t as simple as destroying things because people do evil things. The lack of nuance in this conversation is getting tiring.
- ryandrake 2y ago“But people are going to lose jobs” is always the excuse used when arguing to treat a criminally fraudulent company with kid gloves. Do we really think ~100k people temporarily losing their job (at a criminal enterprise) is going to make America lose its edge? EDIT: Also: if America’s “edge” largely comes from its business leaders’ immunity from their company’s wrongdoing, then I’m not sure that’s an edge worth keeping.
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