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The start tossing executives in jail.

It’s the only real solution to corporations misbehaving.



Cooperations will just start paying compensation for executive jail time - and replace executives at a accelerated rate.

The only working regulation is one that is a existential threat to the company. Which means- huge financial punnishments.


Something I'm surprised no one has considered seriously is revoking business licenses. That is a much more existential threat, literally.


Corporate death penalty. It's the only way to be sure.


Phoenixing :(


...from orbit.


Maybe they start paying compensation to the family, making sure that they're set even if you fail - firmly stepping into mafia territory.

Still, corporations, while being essentially a different kind of life, are not entirely separate entities - they are composed of people. Fear of jail might just be enough to get some high-level executives to exert proper influence on the direction of the corporation.


You can’t return a decade sitting in a miserable cell.


Oh, contrair- if you have a decade sitting unemployed in a room- and you get a chance, by taking all the responsibilities and liabilitys, to live your golden years in the sun- what would you have to loose?




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