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by njr123 4662 days ago
We absolutely do throw people in jail for being bad at their jobs.

If an engineer signs off on design work which then fails and injures/kills someone due to their incompetence they can and are charged with professional negligence and sent to jail.

Although financial incompetence doesn't kill anyone, it does effect a much much larger number of people, so I don't see why we shouldn't take the same approach and make the directors of financial firms personally liable for the outcomes of their actions.

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> If an engineer signs off on design work which then fails and injures/kills someone due to their incompetence they can and are charged with professional negligence and sent to jail.

And medical misconduct and malpractice often involve federal investigations, that tells you it's not considered trivial.

It doesn't directly kill anyone, but it affects macro factors such that more people will die as a result.