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Are there any sufficiently large organizations (500+ employees seems to be right around the mark) that exist that are NOT doing illegal things? I have a list of
by sigseg1v 2y ago
Are there any sufficiently large organizations (500+ employees seems to be right around the mark) that exist that are NOT doing illegal things? I have a list of 2 from personal experience, 4 from family experience, and several more from friends experience. From this I would be surprised to find if there exists one that is not regularly doing illegal activities. The story is extremely believable and I have no reason to doubt it because it mirrors what I have seen personally.
- enriquec 2y agoI've worked at plenty of organizations 1-25k+ and never done or known of anyone doing anything even close to illegal.
- vlovich123 2y agoAbsence of proof is not proof of absence. Would you even have known the details for each of the 25k people? I could make a similar argument that when I worked for Apple back in the day I didn't know about anyone doing anything illegal. But Apple is a massive company and I'm sure there was probably all sorts of things going on.
- enriquec 2y agoWhen you make an assertion, you have to prove the positive. Proving the negative isn't how logic works.
- shkkmo 2y agoI would suspect that as scale grows, law breaking becomes more likely. However that doesn't mean that all those companies break the law with same severity, ubiquity and ill intent. I do think if we uad a legal that could actually hold these organizations accountable, and we would see less corporate law breaking. A common stance on HN is that we should be putting more executives in jail for longer instead of just fining companies amounts that are just the cost of doing business.