Assuming the allegations are substantial and true, Danaher should be very grateful that he's protected by the law. I can't imagine the urge for vengeance that would be felt by a parent of someone who died from this.
The CDC findings were that black market THC pods are causing the deaths. It seems most of the current moral outrage and reactionary, emergency regulations on (nicotine) vaping have been because people have not been doing their research at all.
[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/podcasts/the-daily/vaping...
It's called grandstanding
If we could work out a way to financially incentivise taking care of each other many of our problems would change swiftly and dramatically.
Then the vape company has a direct incentive to help me be successful.
Such a payment system should be assisted by government (ie. Government should give out forms which prove your earnings), and banks (who would remember who is due what percentage of your earnings and distribute appropriately).
The basics of such a system already exists in the UK, where students commit to paying 9% of their future income to pay for university (with a time limit and money limit).
This is a classic move in our economy: 1) product or service slowly becomes more expensive relative to income, 2) a subsidy that was supposed to go to the bottom tier to help even the playing field but is now used by more and more people due to 1 adjusts it's payout to return to it's planned effectiveness, then 3) product or service operator notices that consumers have more available money and adjusts their cost upwards.
Similar effects have been observed in more nuanced ways, like the costs of fresh fruits and vegetables being higher than boxed and processed foods, so low income food subsidy programs bump their monetary payouts to encourage purchasing of fresh foods, and some boxed or processed foods have a statistically unusual bump in retail prices in the area. This is the kind of bullshit that really starts to make me think that the USA needs a secondary monetary system (not bitcoin/blockchain, and not Dollar based) to be used for redemption of welfare and entitlement benefits which would make it impossible to track between something like an increase in food stamp benefits and monetary compensation for the use of those benefits. I'm cool with Kraft thinking that Velveeta cheese "product" needs to be more expensive in our magical capatalistic society, I'm just not cool with them thinking that only because the lowest income shoppers suddenly have 5 more cents in their account every month.
Just pointing out the obvious, people do crazy and harmful shit for money all the time (eg. Juul execs). Possibly more often than people with more “legitimate” reasons (eg. Vengeance).
So uh, do such people actually exist? The article doesn't suggest that anyone died.
For all we know Juul shipped 1M mint pods contaminated with strawberry flavour. The fact that the story completely avoids this is a bit suspicious.
"Mr. Breja brings this action after he was terminated in retaliation for whistleblowing and objecting to the contaminated pod shipment and other illegal and unsafe conduct that has jeopardized and continues to jeopardize public health and safety and the lives of millions of consumers, many of them children and teens."
I think it's safe to say this isn't about strawberry flavoured mint
I was simply reflecting on the factors at play in situations like this.