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How it even theoretically can be as common place as "convicted felon going to jail" ?

If your point of contention is that corporate crime is not as common place as regular felony, you’re right, my statement might have been better phrased.

The point I was trying to make is the percentage of convicted felons getting jail time ought to be close to the percentage of companies (i.e. their executives) guilty of egregious violations and abuses getting jail time.

Q: America has minor drug users incarcerated for life, and the highest per-capita incarceration rate in the world, save Seychelles. How many Wall St. bankers, corrupt DC lobbyists or public officials are in jail for their crimes? A: very few, just to make an ostensible show of a statement now and then to mollify the people during tough times. The bigger the crime, the lesser the time.

Audi/VW/Porsche are not American companies

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