Comment on Anon tells the tale of the Garfield phones
Tyfud@lemmy.world 2 months agoIt happens semi-regularly. Unfortunately it doesn’t turn out like you’d think.
The company immediately bankrupts itself, but all of its assets and funds are protected by S-Corp and LLC chicanery; so they end up paying less than they would have if they stayed afloat and got fined, and now they’ve got a “new” company with the same people doing the same thing that’s protected from lawsuits.
Because that’s how we designed the system.
And by we, I mean the oligarchs that keep us fighting among ourselves instead of at them.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Eliminate the corporate veil. The people making and benefiting from the decisions made by corporations should be the ones liable, not some entity that doesn’t really exist and can be made to truly not exist if continuing pretending to exist cuts off the money train.
Though this would require fixing the justice and political systems first, since they’ve been corrupted by people who think this is the way things should look.
Tyfud@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Totally agreed. Unfortunately I don’t see it happening in our lifetimes.
Would love to be wrong here though.