I've said it before and I'll say it again. The corporate veil needs to be not only eliminated, but reversed
If a corporation is a collection of people driven by a charter, and that corporation commits a crime, the people who drove that decisions have two forms of protection from liability. One, criminal liability is in effect treated as diffuse and it is near impossible to charge any person for a crime. Two, assets not associated with the company are protected from liability involving the company's actions
This is madness. When a collective of any kind commits a crime, this is conspiracy. If someone is a voting shareholder or board member or top-level executive of a company that did a crime, they should automatically be liable. Executives should be resigning out of fear of being held responsible when given an unjust order. In the current environment, everyone involved is heavily tilted toward continuing to harm people for profit, because no consequences besides being lambasted in the media (If someone dares do journalism, in an environment where oligarchs punish and discourage exposes by buying up news orgs and socially discrediting all criticism as "cancel culture", and seemingly will outright murder whistleblowers in their own organizations), but heavy consequences can be inflicted on them by the explicitly authoritarian hierarchies within the corporations themselves and the outsized influence on your entire career prospects that defying someone in a position of power in a concentrated industry (which is at this point most if not all industries) can have should you choose your ethics over their marching orders
Not only should no one have this much power, ever, for any reason, but we have cleanly separated power from responsibility of any kind. This has never been conducive to a functional society, and it will continue to get worse as long as this structure remains intact
If a corporation is a collection of people driven by a charter, and that corporation commits a crime, the people who drove that decisions have two forms of protection from liability. One, criminal liability is in effect treated as diffuse and it is near impossible to charge any person for a crime. Two, assets not associated with the company are protected from liability involving the company's actions
This is madness. When a collective of any kind commits a crime, this is conspiracy. If someone is a voting shareholder or board member or top-level executive of a company that did a crime, they should automatically be liable. Executives should be resigning out of fear of being held responsible when given an unjust order. In the current environment, everyone involved is heavily tilted toward continuing to harm people for profit, because no consequences besides being lambasted in the media (If someone dares do journalism, in an environment where oligarchs punish and discourage exposes by buying up news orgs and socially discrediting all criticism as "cancel culture", and seemingly will outright murder whistleblowers in their own organizations), but heavy consequences can be inflicted on them by the explicitly authoritarian hierarchies within the corporations themselves and the outsized influence on your entire career prospects that defying someone in a position of power in a concentrated industry (which is at this point most if not all industries) can have should you choose your ethics over their marching orders
Not only should no one have this much power, ever, for any reason, but we have cleanly separated power from responsibility of any kind. This has never been conducive to a functional society, and it will continue to get worse as long as this structure remains intact