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I imagine they'd be a lot more responsive to prison time, personally. A fine doesn't seem to capture the correct incentives here.



Just because you have no sympathy for the large corporations doesn't mean they should be treated unfairly, and going to jail because of actions that actually weren't in your control is definitely unfair.

Corporations are made of people, and can by large multinationals, or small mom and pop operations with a few tens of people (or less). Should someone that has a company that runs a few ice cream shops in town go to jail because of actions of people under them? Because it's not like it's always going to be something that was condones or expected from management, and while I'm okay with monetary damages that don't aim to dismantle the company entirely even if management didn't really know what's going on (that's maybe a good way to make them care and pay attention), I'm not okay with sending them to jail because of mismanagement.

Not only is that unfair, it would have a huge chilling factor on entrepreneurs. And not just the startup kind, the people that want to open a restaurant or run a small business.

And to fully put this in context, this is under an article about booking.com paying slowly. You think jail time is appropriate for that? What if they're having cashflow problems? If they aren't and it's intentional, how do you distinguish this from that?


Hear, hear. And more corporate lawyers should be getting disbarred than the current status quo.




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