You are charged with murder and go to jail for a very long time, just like any regular citizen.
This really should not be controversial or complicated. If you kill people, there are consequences. That's how the world works for 99.9999% of the human race. The same standard should be applied to CEOs as the proxy for the corporate entity that they are.
To argue anything else is to argue that so long as you have enough money, it's perfectly acceptable to kill as many people as you want in as gruesome a fashion as you'd like.
The price of being a scumsucking robber baron murdering thousands of people for profit should be extreme. The profits gained from such behavior should be clawed back with the full force of government from any source even remotely related. The company should be gutted and auctioned off, or nationalized if they're "too big to fail". Investors immediately and irrevocably lose all stakes, no exceptions. All recovered moneys should be distributed to victims and families.
Boeing never should have happened and it should never happen again. But this behavior and exploitation and mass murder will not stop so long as it's profitable and murderers just walk away with zero repercussions and keep their billions in blood money.
Boeing is not a case of incompetence. This is a case of pure and simple greed. They've ignored safety reports and FAA guidance. They even rigged the FAA inspection process to let them rubber-stamp things in-house (while ignoring failing reports). This has been a long decline and they've made the worst decisions the entire time.
Even if it were incompetence or ignorance, it absolutely does not matter. If you run over a kid because you were texting or simply not paying attention to the road, you go to jail. If your incompetence leads to hundreds and thousands of deaths, you should be just as culpable.
Stop making excuses for billionaire mass murders. Drag them to the gallows instead.
People die all the time in motor accident all the time. It is a regular occurrence that close calls happen all the time, sometime with nobody's fault. The solution for like 90% of time is actually simple but also politically unpalatable: just reduce the amount of driving that's needed to be done. You don't need more traffic police or amazing self driving technology or draconian punishment. You can then concentrate your police resources on stuff elsewhere that matters.
That's it.
Advocating draconian consequences isn't really going to move the needle. Maybe it will even scare all the risk adverse CEOs and now you have dangerous executives in charge who will be insensitive to the consequence of possibly serving jailtime and being ruined.
Plus, there's also time and money wasted in pursuing extreme punishment. Beyond past a certain point, there's going to be no meaningful difference. What's the difference of being in utterly extreme pain and being in utterly extreme pain 1000x?
> You're in charge of a safety-critical business...
This sounds super amazing but where do you stop? I am software developer working on the latest cool algorithm to control traffic lights to help with congestion. I fuck up, green turns on opposite sides of the road, car accident, 10 people instantly dead. I go to jail as lead dev on software that runs?! CEO goes to jail because project may have required 10 QA people but he only hired 3 to save a few bucks...?
These things is why you have government and you have regulation. We put people in offices whose job is large part is to protect the citizens. Expecting a CEO to act in the best interest of citizens is like trusting a fat kid around apple pie :)
You're in charge of a safety-critical business.
You make decisions that trade safety for profit.
People die.
You are charged with murder and go to jail for a very long time, just like any regular citizen.
This really should not be controversial or complicated. If you kill people, there are consequences. That's how the world works for 99.9999% of the human race. The same standard should be applied to CEOs as the proxy for the corporate entity that they are.
To argue anything else is to argue that so long as you have enough money, it's perfectly acceptable to kill as many people as you want in as gruesome a fashion as you'd like.
The price of being a scumsucking robber baron murdering thousands of people for profit should be extreme. The profits gained from such behavior should be clawed back with the full force of government from any source even remotely related. The company should be gutted and auctioned off, or nationalized if they're "too big to fail". Investors immediately and irrevocably lose all stakes, no exceptions. All recovered moneys should be distributed to victims and families.
Boeing never should have happened and it should never happen again. But this behavior and exploitation and mass murder will not stop so long as it's profitable and murderers just walk away with zero repercussions and keep their billions in blood money.
Boeing is not a case of incompetence. This is a case of pure and simple greed. They've ignored safety reports and FAA guidance. They even rigged the FAA inspection process to let them rubber-stamp things in-house (while ignoring failing reports). This has been a long decline and they've made the worst decisions the entire time.
Even if it were incompetence or ignorance, it absolutely does not matter. If you run over a kid because you were texting or simply not paying attention to the road, you go to jail. If your incompetence leads to hundreds and thousands of deaths, you should be just as culpable.
Stop making excuses for billionaire mass murders. Drag them to the gallows instead.