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by jessedhillon 3644 days ago
Yes, punish the hundreds who simply do their job by forcing the company to go out of business, instead of trying to steer it towards a more productive future. We've gotta justify that pitchfork investment, don't we?
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You punish the family when you send a parent to prison.
I'm sure I've seen "just doing my job" invoked in a pejorative sense, in close parallel to "just following orders"? When one's job is to harm society, society might step in, even if one "didn't know".
Is your argument that P2P lending is analogous to the Holocaust?