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[โ€“] psvrh@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Want to fix this? It'll take a) jail time, and b) asset seizure.

Corporate structure deliberate distributes responsibility for things like this such that:

  • It's very hard to find one person to blame, let alone prove malfeasance.
  • If by some chance you do find a smoking gun, the fine for doing so is usually less than the profit of the transgression

If, eg, Howard Schultz and his direct-reports faced fines and/or jail time directly, and those fines were orders of magnitude the harms of the action, then you'd see some of this stop.

[โ€“] Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

I would offer that we hit the entire corporate/franchise structure with a % of revenue fine. That shit will get fixed real quick.