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.
When the fuck are they going to stop treating these companies and executives with kid gloves?
Why do they do these things, shred evidence, lie on the stand, and break almost every white collar law there is? Because there are little to no consequences. And if there are it’s for people in the “out” group. New money.
Crack down on all of them. Shredding evidence should be an admission of guilt. Full stop.
When Citizens United gets overturned (i.e. never).
But the second you steal money from them, youll be only trial for your life pretty darn quick.
How optimistic to think you’d make it to trial for your theft.
You think the government is running the country? Have you been living under a rock?
They’ll fuck you raw, and you’ll say thanks daddy!
Treat the destruction of evidence as proof of guilt and assume the worst case scenario. Ya know, the thing we do with criminals.
We don’t turn destruction of evidence as proof of guilt with criminals, it’s just a separate crime.
Legally we don’t, but generally, as people… I think most of us look at destruction of evidence as at least evidence of guilt.
Since when is that proof of guilt? I can see it being it’s own specific crime, but it proves nothing.
It only works with people. Capitalism.
Yeah, I know that. I didn’t say what WILL happen, just what SHOULD
Corporate death penalty should be on the table for stuff like this.
Scandalist communism!
Didn’t expect US to be communist country.
it is the natural recourse of capitalism to create an enemy. that’s what competition is.
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)
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:
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Forced turnover of executives and board members (with jail time and high % fines), corporate watchdog for x amount of years
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Dissolve the mega-corp into smaller corporations, and/or force all subsidiaries into a planned disengagement from parent company
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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.
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Something would eventually take their place. The strain would be temporary.
They’ll fine Amazon a pittance, pocket it, declare victory, and there’s nothing we can do about it.
Nothing legal we can do.
Get money out of politics and these problems go away (because they will be dealt with properly).
The executives need to be charged and Amazon should be put on a tight regulatory leash, if not broken up completely
Legislative to CEO: You get a $5 fine. Now stop doing that or I’ll increase it to $10! >:(
