[WalterBright]

If a company promotes/hires people who make decisions deleterious to the company's financials, that company will be less profitable and the stock price will be less.

I.e. the market corrects for things.

[ido]

Eventually, sometimes. After billions have been spent/wasted. Companies the size (and with the cash cows) of Apple/Google/MS/etc can make atrocious decisions for decades before they go down.

[watwut]

First, that does not make those people punished. At best it make the company punished.

Second, it does not seem like those companies were punished in any measurable way.

[WalterBright]

> Second, it does not seem like those companies were punished in any measurable way.

Less profit adds up.