• Zedstrian
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    9 days ago

    That encourages companies to go into liquidation if they anticipate incurring a substantial legal liability relative to their size.

    • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works
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      Yeah, we should start holding the people in senior management actually responsible

      Suing a company makes no sense: it’s like suing the car after an accident instead of the driver

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        That is the entire idea of the corporation, the people that own it are blameless, only the corporation is liable, and they can just dip out like this. They should have to put up a bond or something if we’re going to keep it like this. But we are going to keep it like this and then make it worse so that’s where we are.

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            8 days ago

            They’re very rarely charged corporations criminally anymore though, most all of them are allowed to come to a settlement without admitting fault, which was supposed to be meant for kids tonight get their lives ruined with the criminal record.

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      This is like that meme about repeatedly replacing the family pet

      Sounds like youre feeding orphans to the orphan crushing machine