Comment by bluefirebrand

6 days ago

You're talking about being accountable to shareholders

I am talking about being accountable to society

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andsoitis  6 days ago

What do you recommend then instead of losing your job and by extension the ability to affect society in a big way?

  • bluefirebrand  6 days ago

    Jail, mostly

    I just think that "our company got caught doing seriously illegal / negligent shit but don't worry we fired the CEO who oversaw all of it after paying them 10s of millions of dollars" is really not a punishment to either the company or the CEO

    It's kind of a rigged system that ensures no one is held accountable

    Oh, "the company" gets fined a fraction of the value they gained from behaving illegally, the shareholders get a ton of money, the executive team gets a golden parachute, and society gets fucked

    Honestly we should be putting people to death for this behavior, instead many of us applaud what great business sense everyone involved has