If the penalty for a crime is a fine, that just means it's legal for the wealthy/only a crime for the competition that doesn't have money to burn.
Frankly it's about damned time criminal corporations had to worry about having their charters yanked
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2024
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These companies are are always fined such low amounts. Just once, I want to read: company does something illegal. Government fines them $3 billion. Or half of their worth.
Or something meaningful. Just once.
"Tennessee factory was shut down after government crack down on child labor."
$3 billion / a day
Pull their property leases or business licenses.
At the very least the fine should always be double what the profit gained was.
They probably saved way more than they were fined.
when a company makes profit from crimes and a gov "fines" them only a fraction of their crimes profits, that gov is basically saying 'good job, go on, do more! but we want to get paid for protecting you and participate in profiting from your crimes" to them. it does not matter if that gov actually says such words bcs this is what the criminal groups will hear AND experience then anyway. thus words are neither needed nor could stop such crimes. but such words can help raise the crimerate again when news talk like that company had payed the fine and the crowd would stop looking into it but look rather away of it. this way those "fines" -when too low- actually help the criminals to go on with crimes.
As is sadly tradition....
Some capitalist exec somewhere is masturbating at the idea of having illegal immigrant minors working for him on a factory floor for less than minimum wages with no benefits.
Where are all the "build a wall" and "they take our jobs" screamers now?
Oh those top execs don't give two shots about those. It's all a show to them to watch with popcorn.
meanwhile in NSW Australia it is perfectly legal to employ children for anything ... you just fucking don't because you have to pay them minimum wage.
Here in the Netherlands, some times it feels like 14 year olds are running the entire supermarket industry.
If this is what humanity is all about, put me firmly in the misanthrope column.
Seems like we could get some 12 year olds in there. Try harder Tennessee!