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Real punishment for engineers might give them more power (and incentive) to push back against management.

Is this the inverse of trickle down economics?

Yeah, let's punish the people who just want to feed their families, and don't have any real control over company decisions, so they may do our (the regulators') work for us... What could possibly go wrong?

Why not jail their families, too? That would give them even more incentive to fight back!

This is the nuremburg defense. Might want to rethink it.

I re-thought it, and I stand by my arguments.

Decision makers should be the ones punished for making decisions. As simple as that.

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