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And in this case, as is almost always the case, the "elites" are not even paying the fine. The Company is. No human being inside the company who made any of the relevant decisions and did any of the wrongdoing will suffer in any way, or have to pay anything.

If you want to kill people and get away with it, just form a corporation and have your CxO and SVP staff make decisions that kill people.

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>If you want to kill people and get away with it, just form a corporation and have your CxO and SVP staff make decisions that kill people.

Note this only works for indirect deaths. If you form a corporation and then order a hit on someone, that's still illegal and you'll still go to jail. If you form a corporation, build a coal power plant that follows all regulations, and the particulate pollution sends a few hundred people to their early deaths that's fine.

Notably, what is even a viable alternative?

Also - they already plan for the Fine and put that peanuts on the side… just a nice tax deduction… it would be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad

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