Amazon execs destroyed years of evidence before FTC action, agency says::Amazon allegedly destroyed communications, turned controversial programs on and off, and knowingly raised prices for consumers, according to unsealed documents.

  • ChihuahuaOfDoom
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    661 year ago

    Corporate death penalty should be on the table for stuff like this.

      • @uis
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        21 year ago

        Didn’t expect US to be communist country.

        • @[email protected]
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          01 year ago

          it is the natural recourse of capitalism to create an enemy. that’s what competition is.

    • @[email protected]
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      -241 year ago

      This would create a big strain on the job market. Good luck dealing with a flood of >50k employees looking for a job (vs a new employee fresh out of college)

      • @[email protected]
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        201 year ago

        That’s not how this works at all.

        There are plenty of ways to deal with this, and issue a death penalty to the corporation while not punishing the workers:

        • Forced turnover of executives and board members (with jail time and high % fines), corporate watchdog for x amount of years

        • Dissolve the mega-corp into smaller corporations, and/or force all subsidiaries into a planned disengagement from parent company

        • Bail-out in the form of state ownership by government buying majority stake

        In any of the above, or even in a complete mega-corp dissolution the demand doesn’t disappear. If you want to have the argument that these “oh so wonderful stewards of business” are the reason people have jobs in the first place, you can’t ignore that demand is the reason those very same executives have jobs too.

        If they tear it down, someone will build something else to replace it.

      • @jwagner7813
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        11 year ago

        Something would eventually take their place. The strain would be temporary.