[snapcaster]

This is so awful it's hard to even believe. It does feel like there needs to be some threat of a company being completely dissolved in cases like this or Equifax or other problems this big that the organization has shown no interest in stopping

[annexrichmond]

at what point is the punishment worse than the crime, such as if hundreds or thousands of people lose their job?

[pessimizer]

This is dumb. If Hertz closes down, other car rental companies will take up the demand, and Hertz employees will apply for jobs at those companies.

edit: and if people aren't punished at Hertz, those other car rental companies will see that the money to be made through bad behavior more than makes up for the costs if caught.

[ipaddr]

Amount of people employed should not factor in to decisions like this. Otherwise the government should prevent Amazon from laying off 20,000 if that's all that matters.

[infamouscow]

Consequentialist arguments aren't very good for punishing actors for bad behavior. For example, we don't let murders free just because the lives of their children are forever impacted if the murder goes to prison.

[annexrichmond]

is it not an argument against capital punishment?