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If an exec breaks the law, they can and should be prosecuted. Whats weird is filing criminal charges against a company, it’s not like the company can be incar
by adrr 1y ago
If an exec breaks the law, they can and should be prosecuted. Whats weird is filing criminal charges against a company, it’s not like the company can be incarcerated. There are ways to impose fines/injuctions via the civil court system.
- BrenBarn 1y agoMore and more I think part of the problem is the burden of proof. It's too easy for executives to hide behind plausible deniability. There needs to be a presumption of individual executive guilt if bad conduct by the company is found to have occurred. In other words, if it happens on your watch, you are guilty of it. Another way forward is that the presumption of innocence should be a sliding scale based on the amount a person has benefited. So if you made $100 million from the company, the bar is very low; you don't get to make $100 million unless everything is absolutely squeaky clean. If you were just an average joe taking home a $50k paycheck, you get much more benefit of doubt. So it's basically like making a lot of money off any endeavor is itself something that requires extra-good conduct; the default position is no one gets to make a lot of money at all.
- adrr 1y agoIf execs are willfully blind to criminal activity done by employees, they can and should prosecuted. Problem is they have too much clout and money that they won't get prosecuted.