• lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    When the fines aren’t big enough, they’re just the cost of doing business.

    Penalties for fuckery like this should be at GDPR levels, meaning a percentage of global turnover of the parent company.

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      9 hours ago

      Just levying fines and imposing jail sentences doesn’t go far enough, it’s a 19th century solution to a 21st century problem.

      Corporate personhood and limited liability need to be abolished and private enterprise needs to be re considered from first principles for the modern era.

      It corporations are people, there needs to be a death sentence and involuntary psychiatric commitment .

      • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 hours ago

        Except psychiatric take over mean government run and we’ve collectively accept that’s a lovecraft leviathan, when it’s historically been otherwise.

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          6 hours ago

          Government administered healthcare has better outcomes and less administrative overhead than privately administered healthcare. Look at privatized firefighters for another example. Government is always on the forefront of messy expensive and complex systems and yes it could be improved but if half of it wasn’t trying to deregulate the other half out of existence we could probably bring some more resources to bear on the problem more efficiently.

          The problem is that profit seeking enterprise explicitly doesn’t serve human values and that’s by design.

          Also psychiatric commitment isn’t necessarily forever and has a restorative focus.

        • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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          7 hours ago

          I don’t want government run companies unless they are utilities, and even then, I still want them to be owned by the population, not a handful of people.