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by mystified5016 624 days ago
Pretty much no corporation in the last 40 years has suffered the consequences of their actions. Boeing has killed how many people and it's taking an act of Congress to even start talking about some consequences later, maybe.
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Arthur Andersen went under after its accounting negligence: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen

A few food companies have failed due to poor quality control: https://www.thestreet.com/retail/another-popular-ice-cream-b...

In fact, many companies go bankrupt every year: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_in_the_United_Sta...

>Pretty much no corporation in the last 40 years has suffered the consequences of their actions.

There's hundreds of regulatory actions taken by governments per year. That's "consequence" by definition.

Fines of a few percent of the revenues generated aren’t enough of a deterrent.