>>How can you know if your yellow sweets are coloured with lead chromate?
Well because if they are then eventually someone will get sick, they will sue the company, the company will have to pay millions in damages, and it will have to stop using lead in their sweets, which will scare every other company away from trying to do the similar thing /s
Poe's law strikes again! There are in fact people that think like that, and have to be lead by the nose to waters of wisdom with the hopes of drinking a small bit.
Clearly the legal system has broken down (been deliberately broken), and the regulatory system has simultaneously broken down (been deliberately broken), so somebody's going to have to get a little creative relative to the norms that they were raised with, if they want to continue to actually have a society rather than a Lotka-Volterra equation.
The impetus towards revenge killings and blood debts successfully deterred malicious actions through most of human prehistory and even much of history. With the trend towards corporate consolidation, each CEO's exposure is actually pretty huge when "their actions result in the death of others". All that's necessary is a well-armed grieving family member and a social narrative that actually, yes, this is how we do things. All we're missing is the narrative.
And the geeks actually have the narrative. Cyberpunk is just the most aspirational dream of occasional justice that can exist within the confines of the America Reagan built, in the post-liberal corporatist society.
>> The personal, as everyone is so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous marks the difference - the only difference in their eyes - between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal. - Takeshi Kovacs, Altered Carbon
Well because if they are then eventually someone will get sick, they will sue the company, the company will have to pay millions in damages, and it will have to stop using lead in their sweets, which will scare every other company away from trying to do the similar thing /s