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by stef25
880 days ago
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Even psychopaths don't want to end up disgraced or in jail. So maybe it's the lack of punishment we dole out to these kinds of people. Nowadays companies can seriously suffer by mishandling their "attitudes" over social justice issues, my gut reaction was that if that's true how could they get away with a plane falling out of the sky. Still a bigger deal than dozen people dying in cars with faulty fuel systems, perhaps just because of the optics. |
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You're describing effective regulatory oversight. That is a manual control on capitalism, and something capitalism inevitably fights against. Psychopaths exist and look for ways to exploit capitalism, including "fuck it, we'll risk loss of human life and possibly having to shut down the company", which you said isn't due to capitalism. But it is: it's due to the combination of capitalism and human nature, but we can only control the former. The solution is regulatory oversight, as you just pointed out.
Also: realize that psychopaths will absolutely risk shutting down the company if they think they can exit with a personal profit before that happens. CEOs routinely fuck over the longevity of the companies they lead, knowing they won't be around for the fallout. In fact it's hard to find situations where this doesn't happen -- it's almost always private companies or companies where the CEO is completely entrenched.