• That’s the entire reason these people get paid so much. They’re the representatives of the corporation. They’re the ones who get subpoenaed and jailed if the company fucks up!!

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      4 months ago

      That sounds terrible! What if we blamed random bits of middle management instead and got rich for no risk?

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      4 months ago

      They do? I’m hard-pressed to think of a time when a CEO was jailed when their company fucked up. Union Carbide (now DOW) has barely even paid restitution for Bhopal yet. Certainly nobody in the senior executive was held to account.