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> But I don't think they would dare. I think the history of corporate bad behavior has demonstrated that any time you say "Surely, company X wouldn't dare to d
by ryandrake 1y ago
> But I don't think they would dare.
I think the history of corporate bad behavior has demonstrated that any time you say "Surely, company X wouldn't dare to do [some profit-making thing]" you're probably wrong. This applies to all companies, not just Facebook. Revenue = R, Cost of the activity = A, Probability of being caught = P, Likely fine = F. If R > A + P x F, you do the thing.
- hermitcrab 1y agoHopefully you would be talking about prison time for that sort of blatant fraud. But that might naive of me.
- GOD_Over_Djinn 1y agoI think that prison would be an exceptional case. Typically, white collar criminals do not face justice for their crimes in the same way as common people.
- S3verin 1y agoThere are a ton of settlements with huge fines paid by all sorts of companies, but every time they "admit to no wrongdoing". So they pay but deny any responsibility. This is super common.