[jmyeet]

Let's compare this to China where 2 executives were sentenced to death (and others to life sentences) for their role in selling tainted formula (resulting in infant deaths) and concealing it [1] or Jack Ma (of Alibaba) who just disappeared for 3 months [2].

It should be a legal requirement that a human review and sign off on any complaint about a stolen car to police. That personal (and company) should be held criminally liable for making false police reports in addition to any civil damages (including significant punitive damages) they should pay.

[1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna28787126

[2]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56448688

[vorpalhex]

Let's maybe not copycat a country that abducts people who make gentle criticism of it's flawed banking system.

[lostmsu]

One should be disputing individual policies. Policies are not all-or-nothing deals.

[smsm42]

Trading a set of small villains which sometimes get (insufficiently) punished for one super-powerful supervillain which never gets punished for anything doesn't look like a good deal to me. Yes, Darth Vader used to choke his underlings who misbehaved, it doesn't exactly make him a good guy.

[jmyeet]

The "set of small villains" is in fact basically every CEO and major shareholder. Corporate power is almost completely unchecked and both parties are completely owned by these corporations.

$1000 insulin only exists because the government has been bought and paid for to create a legal monopoly. This is state violence against people who need life-saving medication.

[mrguyorama]

We still haven't sent either Trump or Clinton (either) to jail. How do we not already have the supervillain system? Some of Trump's admin genuinely believe that the president should be above the law, and other's in the republican party agree

[smsm42]

"Boo outgroup" partisan fluff aside, nobody actually genuinely believes that. And the powers of US president, while great, are nowhere near the dictatorial powers of Chinese Communist Party and its General Secretary. It doesn't mean US federal government isn't grotesquely overpowered (it is) or partisans don't abuse legal and regulatory system for partisan purposes (they regularly and routinely do) - but it's not nearly close to the system China has where anybody who crosses the Party will be murdered or imprisoned or pushed outside of the country without any recourse. We do have some elements of these system, but on that road, we are still way behind China - and maybe we have time to turn back, if we wanted to.

[fallingknife]

Are you really using China as an example of how this is handled well? From your own source:

>Ahead of this, Ma addressed an assembly of high-profile figures with a controversial speech that criticised the Chinese financial system. He was not seen in public again until late January. In the interim, there were rumours that he might have been placed under house arrest or otherwise detained. Some even questioned if he was still alive.

[jmyeet]

The lesson I would like people to take from China is that government is the only thing that can rein in corporate power. This is one reason (of many) why I either laugh or just roll my eyes at libertarians.

Obviously there are aspects of China you don't want to emulate (eg the ethnic cleansing).

[fallingknife]

What does anything in this thread have to do with "corporate power?" It's the cops who put these people in jail and you have exactly the same power as Hertz to file false police reports.