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Atleast in China they have to option to give CEO's the death penalty if they step out of line. I think silicon valley behaviour would be better if the CEO's had some skin in the game.

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I would not want the current US president to hold the power to kill CEOs that he thinks have stepped "out of line".

Quite a few of the other presidents, likewise.

Kills the CEOs, but don't punish actual criminals, very left-coded.

And according to the right the CEOs need to be paid obscene amounts of money because they’re ultimately responsible for everything the company does. Can’t have it both ways.

Mark Zuckerberg isn't paid obscene amounts of money by anyone, he is rich because he maintained ownership over something he built.

don't worry, I also believe in prison for violent offenders, I just think that the more power you have the more serious punishment should get

The actual criminal here is the CEO. But of course very right-coded is to not care about child safety, since the right is the biggest perpetrator of child sex offences and don't mind associating with them.

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/19/1093364807/republicans-confro...

And the church the right is so fond of sure seems to have its own wiki page on child safety. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_c...

Of course Zuck, who's famous for ass kissing the orange stain that calls himself a president https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnGSYvEC-DQ (and who LOOOVES his daughter a little bit too much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EPEkk6qWkg), would want to suppress child safety research, his benefactors demand it.

The comment you're resonding to didn't say one thing about not punishing "actual criminals". What in the world are you responding to?

Because I pay attention to what's happening in the world.

We've had attempts on the life of the President, and a literal CEO gunned down in the street. It's amazing how quickly this got normalized.

What's amazing is the cynical moral calculus people like yourself engage in when you completely discount some types of human lives, but then display this theatrical shock at the notion that the lives of your personal mythological figures - Presidents and "literal" CEOs - might not be utterly sacrosanct in everyone's eyes, the way they are in yours.

How many lives is a CEO's life worth to you? How many lives is "the life of the President" worth?

Another shooting. Predictable. What say you? As I said, this is going downhill, fast, because people like you normalize it.

Are these CEOs not "actual criminals"? Frankly, a CEO who knowingly allows his company to put poison (melamine) in the baby formula they produce -- killing several babies and hospitalizing *51,900* others -- is far more of a "criminal" than a simple mugger. Muggers can only hurt so many people, while major corporations have the capacity to cause harm on a society-wide scale.

Are you saying that what the executives have done here in this article is a crime? Specifically Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO in question?

Then what are we even taking about.

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