No violence should be involved. Large layoffs resulting from that won't be pleasant one bit though.
No violence should be involved. Large layoffs resulting from that won't be pleasant one bit though.
Corporations are a legal fiction. What does dissolving the corporation mean? Revoking its charter? Then what happens to its assets? If you return them to shareholders, you’ve given a boon to its wealthiest, who can now re-organise it free of prior liabilities. If you liquidate them, you’ve delivered a junior fine, since with real fines the fine gets paid before creditors. If you take it, you’ve expropriated (also, fines with extra steps).
In every case, what you want from a “corporate death penalty” is better effected with actual penalties. A market-cap sized fine is more specific and more actionable than a “corporate death penalty,” which is why I suspect the latter is in circulation.
And sometimes these are bad and need to be dissolved.