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The only sad thing about Captain Planet was that it taught me that if you point out the wrong-doings of the rich and powerful, there will be correct action taken by the authorities to right the wrongs and to punish those responsible. The truth is much sadder imho.
"Alright who's got the fire ring. Lemme borrow that. You kids wait in the helicopter"
Mati...I don't think you're supposed to use the heart ring like that...
::SPLORCH::
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD CAPTAIN
Don't summon me again unless you ready for that pain. Peace, dick holes.
My local water company was fined £2m for dumping huge amounts of sewage in the river.
Their profit for the year was about £500m.
Like, what is even the point? We should be renationalising this shit. Fuck these people.
Since you can't put a company in prison, all of management should be on trial for intentional poisoning of the population.
I agree.
It reminds me of that joke that a corporation is an ingenious tool for personal profit without personal responsibility.
It may be radical, but I strongly believe that the people running corporations (aka those making decisions) should be personally held accountable for crimes and wrongdoings of their corporations. It goes against the very idea of a corporations, but absolutely horrible people have been exploiting hiding behind corporations. I bet that if those people had to face the prospect of serious prison time, some actual personal responsibility, they would think twice before committing crimes. (edit for spelling mistakes)
The whole concept of corporations does seem to be purpose-built for avoiding negative consequences. For example, if the company makes a profit, the shareholders own that profit. But if the company goes into deep dept... the shareholders are not on the hook for that.
I think the worst case in the UK at the minute is the Post Office, who knew there was a massive fuck up in their computer system, but prosecuted their sub-postmasters anyway for the "missing" money. People went to jail. People committed suicide. Hundreds faced financial ruin.
I can't wait for the bosses to face absolutely no consequences, or for them to shove some low level minions under the bus.
Even when there are consequences the consequences for the wealthy are always drastically lighter than the consequences for the poor.
Your proposition is only fair since they love to pretend to be people in the eyes of the law, but when any wrongdoing happens, nobody is ever held accountable and they just pay some fines that are like 1% of their profits.