• NaibofTabr
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      9 months ago

      I want to see fines that have real teeth. No flat rates. Some defined amount per violation, in addition to forfeiture of all revenue derived from or connected to the violation(s). It might be complex to figure out what revenue that applies to inside a large corporation, so to help with the assessment you get a group of government auditors attached to your company for as long as the assessment takes. You pay their wages and provide them with whatever office space &etc they require, and they have a position on your executive board and full oversight of company operations until your debt to society is fully paid.

      Regulatory violations should risk ending the company. If you can’t run a profitable business legally then you shouldn’t be running a business.

      • @[email protected]
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        9 months ago

        Personally, I think it would be easier for all involved to just fine based on a percentage of global annual revenue from the date of the violation to present. If they want personhood so bad, then they can have this too.

        Edit for an example: let’s say Intel does anticompetitive behavior 15 years ago and a court case finds them liable for damages today. Add up the last 15 years worth of global revenue, and take a percentage of that.

        • NaibofTabr
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          299 months ago

          Making it easy is precisely not the point. Having to deal with auditors combing through your accounting records and overseeing your operations until every dollar of illegally gained revenue is accounted for is the point.

          The consequence should be onerous, cumbersome and embarrassing for the company.

          • @[email protected]
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            139 months ago

            I get what you mean, but I prefer massive fines due immediately vs expensive and drawn out processes. Using my example, the very absolute bottom of the barrel Intel’s fine could be is a percentage of over $500B (Intel’s revenue in 2009 was $35B, multiplied by 15). Even at 1% based on this floor, the fine would be over $5B.

    • haui
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      719 months ago

      Mandatory jail sentences would be ideal.

        • haui
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          59 months ago

          If I understood you correctly: yes, I would be very happy as well. :)

      • @[email protected]
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        29 months ago

        Just to play Devils advokat here: Wouldn’t that just completely discourage anyone from taking up a new CEO or similar role since you are now liable for some illegal activities that might have happened without your knowledge and long time ago.

        You would at least need very good evidence beyond reasonable doubt that the person in question actively put into motion the illegal activity and knew that it was illegal.

        Placing blame on a single individual might feel satisfying but does not nessesarly punish the correct responsible. When cooperations get as large as Nvidia, Intel etc. it functions in my opinion like one giant complex organism and legal issues like these are often systemic and involves hundreds of people who took decisions.

        I think massive and progressive fines are in fact a good tool because it punishes the “organism” that is truly to blame and not an individual who might be to blame.

        • @[email protected]
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          89 months ago

          No, stop putting randos in the positions of power.

          Selling everyone and everything to the highest bidder should be discouraged and punished. The yes-men bellow will fall in line.

          • @[email protected]
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            39 months ago

            Then who do you suggest should be in power instead? I’m just asking because I would not know. To me personally they will always be a “rando”

            • @[email protected]
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              59 months ago

              Alright, let me rephrase that.

              Stop putting power-hungry people into positions of power. Put there people who care about others, and don’t want the power. Works for government too.

              • haui
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                59 months ago

                Exactly. Same in every club, society and whatnot. The power hungry with strong narcissistic traits (not the mental health diagnosis, mind you) are those who promote their buddies and do everything to stay in power. Its essentially the single biggest problem we have. You can pin mostly all and everything that is wrong with our world on those traits (basically the dark triad), yet they are promoted everywhere. You need to have „elbows“ even in primary school. Just a fool wouldn’t see the outcome of that.

              • @[email protected]
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                29 months ago

                I agree but yet here we are… And I don’t think just putting people in jail helps. But it should definitely have consequences, that’s for sure, but they must first be effective for what they are trying to solve.

                • @[email protected]
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                  19 months ago

                  I am all for rehabilitative care and what not.

                  But psycho- and sociopaths should be behind bars. I’m not even sure if they can be helped.

        • haui
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          89 months ago

          And you played the devils advocate well but the reality is very different. As a former CEO I can tell you that there definitely are jail sentences possible for rather minor offenses (where I live, mind you) like not answering a letter by the government because you were busy. Granted, you do have to be very overwhelmed to not answer those for an extended period but it happens.

          But its the same for small companies that male no profit as it is for multi billion dollar companies.

          I suppose you get the problem here. We have always pinned it on the individual because fines are a corpos wet dream. Same readon why the country I live in has mostly fines for speeding (so it doesnt affect the rich).

          So, mandatory jail sentences, increasing with the companies profit.

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          49 months ago

          Disincentivizing people taking up massive responsibilities that affect the wellbeing of more than a hundred people, sometimes billions, is absolutely the best way to insure that only selfless and competent people take the position.

          Fuck em, CEOs are a waste of space, just make everything a cooperative or something.

          • @[email protected]
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            29 months ago

            I think it is naive to think that only selfless and competent people will take the role then. If properly competent you’d see the massive risk of jail and be highly discouraged to take the position. Noone in their right mind would risk jailtime for a job position.

            On the other hand, billionaires, risktakers and gamblers would be more than willing to take such a role for the power it gives. They don’t really care since billionaires manage their risks with all the money they have, and risktakers and gamblers simply just dont care about it untill it hits them.

            So it solves nothing

            • @[email protected]
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              49 months ago

              If selfish or incompetent people take the role they go to jail, if highly ethical people take the role they don’t go to jail. Generally how laws are supposed to be written.

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                    18 months ago

                    Well sometimes it is… very much subjective… That’s why different countries have different laws. Each country have subjective views on what should be punished or not and how much punishment is right. If Ethics is always objective and like a maths equation that can be solved we should all just have the same laws because it’s objective.