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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 94 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If we treated corporate crime even half as seriously as drug offenses, we'd have plenty of prisoners to satisfy those corporations' needs. It's win/win!

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

But you can't put companies in prison....

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 61 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ah, but you can put executives in prison!

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago

Just putting it out there that when Bulgaria made executives personally liable for prison time if their company committed tax evasion, tax collection went up by 15%.

Suddenly executives we're a lot more concerned with whether their books were correct.

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 day ago

I mean, they are supposedly paid gor all the extra responsibilities they have to shoulder.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago

shareholders. or owners if it's a private company.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Why not? They're "people" after all, at least according to my government.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

Not with that attitude!