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by CogitoCogito 2431 days ago
This thread of comments began with CryoLogic saying this:

> Good. Corporations should be punished when corporate greed leads to negligence which leads to the loss of human life en masse in exchange for short term profit.

I read CryoLogic's usage of "punished" as meaning "losing money due to drop in stock value" (which is what occurred in this case). Regular people holding shares in Boeing absolutely should lose money due to the dropping stock prices. They take risks making investments and they must accept that. So no I don't mean that regular shareholders should be prosecuted. I don't think anyone here has argued for that.