Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker
by matt4077 on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @12:03AM
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You missed the most important aspect of that scene in fight club: "If the profits are larger than the costs of expected settlements and fines". That means you just need to either the chances of being caught or the fines – preferably the first because low chances of being caught just invite delusional thinking ("I'm smarter than others") and people are pretty bad with evaluating probabilities not close to 0 or 1.
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Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker
by sgift on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:16AM
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To catch more wrongdoing you need more oversight, which means more people checking on companies, which means bigger agencies. This is often frowned upon, because many people want a "lean government".