[kiba]

It's really very extremely simple.

You're in charge of a safety-critical business.

You make decisions that trade safety for profit.

People die.

Let me use a different example.

People die all the time in motor accident all the time. It is a regular occurrence that close calls happen all the time, sometime with nobody's fault. The solution for like 90% of time is actually simple but also politically unpalatable: just reduce the amount of driving that's needed to be done. You don't need more traffic police or amazing self driving technology or draconian punishment. You can then concentrate your police resources on stuff elsewhere that matters.

That's it.

Advocating draconian consequences isn't really going to move the needle. Maybe it will even scare all the risk adverse CEOs and now you have dangerous executives in charge who will be insensitive to the consequence of possibly serving jailtime and being ruined.

Plus, there's also time and money wasted in pursuing extreme punishment. Beyond past a certain point, there's going to be no meaningful difference. What's the difference of being in utterly extreme pain and being in utterly extreme pain 1000x?