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A Dinasour Valeting Your Car or Corporate Accountability, Which is More Likely?
Hope the T-Rex doesn’t scratch my paint.
If you build something that falls onto a mother and her child, you will most likely go to jail. Especially if someone told you not to build what you built, or not to built it how you built it. That it would be, “dangerous”.
You don’t do things that are dangerous to others (perhaps also because you aren’t a bad person) becasue if it goes wrong you are screwed.
My pointing that out isn't something that I even needed to say; it’s so obvious. However, If Exxon, Union Carbide or Tesla build the same thing, the same way and were also warned, the worst they can expect is to be hauled in front of Congress and bitched at, maybe pay a fine. Which begs the question; why wouldn’t they just do whatever the hell they want?
If there is no real corporate accountability, then what is there to stop people from doing dangerous or sleazy things?
Well, an old-school conservative will say, “The market will provide backlash and hurt the business”. Last time you needed gas did you avoid BP because of the Gulf and Deepwater Horizon disaster? Of course not.
If I set up 100 bank accounts for people whose info I have access to but do so without their permission, not only…
