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Comment by gsatic | Hacker News Reader

Corporate robots don't care.

They have gotten away with so much for so long, they live in their own disconnected reality.

When things break some of them cash out. Others find someone to blame. They don't pay a price at all. And the cycle continue.

In China atleast people are scared of the govt. In the west its a total joke how no one is ever held responsible.

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Yikes, I wouldn't boast about being scared of a govt. That's on the cusp of being fascist.

Isn't the ideal something like:

Citizens should respect Government, and Government should fear citizens?

I think we are straying away from both of these at the moment.

I think the commenter brings up an interesting point that China more effectively regulates industries that commit wrong [1]. I wouldn't reduce their point to being tantamount to fascism; rather, I read @gsatic as arguing for equal application of the law. This seems fundamental to the US constitution vis à vis John Locke: people (corporations in this case) cede rights for security. If we give corporations regulatory fines that pale in comparison to revenue as a result of malfeasance, are we allowing companies to enjoy our society's benefits, without having to sacrifice the same rights others do?

[1] - Of course, this isn't the complete picture: China has a penchant for arbitrarily dealing a heavy hand to law-abiding companies/persons.

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