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Captured: People in prison drawing people who should be in prison

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This is messed up.

They are the CEO of a large company and so they should be in prison because this is "felt"?

"We present this project to help expose crimes masquerading as commerce."

Bernie seems like a good man and that makes him tempting because he sticks out from the other front runners. But his policies, as well flavored as you can make them, do come down to stuff like this, which is...mindless.

Can we agree that the policies and structure should change to incentivize good behavior? Can we work on that instead of putting 20 faces on the wall and screaming "evil!". Let's have a government, not a mob.

As a younger guy I traveled to El Salvador and heard a comment in passing "well, here its 51% communist and 49% capitalist, the next election could go either way" and I thought "thank god for all of the problems we have in America, we don't have this one." Well...now we do.

I agree, this is absurd. Ignoring the fact that this conflates ethically questionable behavior with illegal behavior, why are only the heads of CEOs being called for? What about the rank and file within the companies who actually perpetrated the bad behavior? What about people on the outside who colluded with the companies to enable the bad behavior, and potentially profited from it? What about the regulators and politicians who failed to adequately notice and prevent bad behavior, or took kick backs / bribes? What about the shareholders and analysts who profited from and arguably incentivize bad behavior by being incredibly short sighted? What about subcontractors and suppliers who enabled and profited from the behavior?

What, how is this a real thing?

Just because you're a CEO means you're a criminal? While I disagree with some of what these companies do, this seems ludicrous.

I'd be interested to see a list of alleged crimes. Some of these strike me as completely misplaced aggression.

Yeah, why is it all businessmen/women? Do they really account for all the unjailed wrongdoers? No eg tough-on-crime politicians? No warlords? No abusive cops?

"For over a year, we asked people in prison to paint or draw people we felt should be in prison–the CEOs of companies destroying our environment, economy, and society."

Just to point out it's NOT the prisoners choosing what to draw.

Ah, good catch -- misunderstood that on the first read.

Click on the picture.

And, to the degree that those are actually illegal, they should be prosecuted. And if they aren't illegal, some of them almost certainly should be.

Ah thanks. A lot of these are fairly silly, but at least they explain their position.

You can't put someone in prison because you don't like the way they do business. They have to break laws first. It's more productive to lobby for changes in the law than to say these guys should be in jail.

“What is the crime of robbing a bank compared with the crime of founding one?”

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