[schemester]

How much more money do engineers or engineering firms make by designing dams that fail and boats that sink?

[s1artibartfast]

Software engineers can make quite a bit at projects and companies that ultimately fail.

Should we hold developers at uber criminally liable if the company fails? management? where does it stop?

[UncleEntity]

> Should we hold developers at uber criminally liable if the company fails?

Apparently not even if they design a system for thwarting regulators from doing their job.

[ISL]

Can be quite a bit -- the low bidder gets the job and gets paid. The higher bidder doesn't get paid and gets to continue looking for work.

[riffraff]

I'm not sure how we can quantify it but we've had the car emissions scandal, the Boeing scandal, perhaps a self driving one..

It seems engineers screw up on purpose often enough that the monetary incentives must be there.

[vjk800]

Just look at the anti-consumer tactics used in the software industry and you have your answer.