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Tough. Many people were idiots when they were younger, and have found themselves saddled with criminal records. Most of these people are not the same person the
by s73v3r 11y ago
Tough. Many people were idiots when they were younger, and have found themselves saddled with criminal records. Most of these people are not the same person they were when they committed the crime. Yet they still find themselves paying for it. I fail to see why a company should have it any different.
- gambiting 11y agoIf anything, this is an argument to stop giving people life sentences, not for giving companies "permanent" punishments. Basf, Siemens, Bayer - all used to work for the Nazis and used labor from concentration camps. Yet you can't possibly say that these companies are the same as they were 70 years ago.
- joshuapants 11y agoNot just Bayer, the whole IG Farben conglomerate.
- evilduck 11y agoUnfortunately, actual people generally only have one true identity and punishments and records stick to that identity. Companies on the other hand, especially those prone to skirting or breaking laws intentionally, come and go. The profit incentive for exploiting foreign workers (and many other criminal corporate activities) is much higher than the costs of creating a purpose-built fall-guy corporate veil. If you lay out permenant company specific bans, those companies will just disappear and a new hydra head will pop up in its place doing the exact same thing. The profit incentive to exploit cheap foreign labor is just too high. Personally, I think if "companies are people", then the people (board of directors, owners, executives) in charge of that "person" should personally share in the company's legal punishments as accomplices or co-conspirators. Let the actual human people who made those illegal choices sit in jail for a few years and decide if that activity is worth pursuing again with a new company.