• @[email protected]
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    120 minutes ago

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ it should be acceptable to subject to capital punishment.

    If one is found to have behaved in a destructive or sociopathic way, its capital should be seized, socialised or auctioned off, and the proceeds primarily put toward remediation.

    Corporations are more amoral than immoral, their undesirable behaviours are typically the result of the incentives they’re rewarded for exhibiting. It would also help if their involvement in the creation and policing the rules they’re expected to follow were severely diminished.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      47 hours ago

      They’re pro-money more than anti-humanist. They vote with their investment portfolios more than their heads.

  • @Sanctus
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    2810 hours ago

    They are, because they’re made up of humans with human health risks. The shareholders just dont realize that yet.

    • @half_built_pyramids
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      1210 hours ago

      Or they think the consequence won’t apply to them, and they’re probably right. The nz compounds are real.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      26 hours ago

      “The shareholders” usually equates to a couple of insanely wealthy majority holders. The rest are mostly just regular people with regular people opinions of things.

      • @Sanctus
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        26 hours ago

        This means nothing except that we are all implicated on the destruction of the planet. Burn the Altars of Wall Street and the world will heal.

  • @[email protected]
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    79 hours ago

    Nah. How many people still smoke, or eat a heap of crap food, knowing that it will effect their future health.

    They will carry on on for the immediate dopamine hit of profits!

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      26 hours ago

      How many people still smoke

      Not many. It’s been a long time since the last time I saw a smoker.

  • circuitfarmer
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    48 hours ago

    This is one reason it is so wild that corporations in the US are entitled to “free speech” (in the form of spending) after the Citizens United decision. They get benefits as if they were a person, but far fewer of the natural restrictions.

  • @Xeroxchasechase
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    If waste and pollution would count as cost, you’ll see this effect. Now they benefit that people all over the world bare their costs

  • @[email protected]
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    910 hours ago

    You can always dig a canal to bring flooding into the business district, think outside the box!

    This is obviously a crude attempt at a joke and not real advice.

    • Curious CanidOP
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      12 hours ago

      Depending on the source, Wall Street is somewhere between 3 and 25 feet above sea level. It wouldn’t take much to dampen the market’s spirit. :-)

  • @[email protected]
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    610 hours ago

    I’m not really convinced that this would change their behavior much tbh, given that corporations are already prone to sacrificing their own financial future for short term profit increases, despite existing for nothing but financial gain.

    • sunzu2
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      29 hours ago

      Corporation is just a group of people extracting value on behave of the “owners”

      The “leadership” always serves themselves first, that’s the entire point of the gig.

  • lettruthout
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    510 hours ago

    Wars would look a lot different too.