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Re:Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor by deogeo on Monday March 18, 2019 @11:21AM (#19421803)
Imagine surveillance being turned upside-down. Imagine a company unable to hire workers, because a union demands they first fire the CEO/management that looted company pensions at their previous company, or ran a predatory loan business, or tried to extort others through bogus patents.

The world would be a much different place if corporate was held personally responsible for their actions the same way labor is.

Re:Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor by dnautics on Monday March 18, 2019 @12:08PM (#19422285)
The thing is corporations exist precisely to limit liability. You don't have to start a corporation - you can run your own business out of your own pocket and accept all the legal liability. However, we make this activity undesirable through policy: (personal income is taxable in a much more punishing way than corporate income, and the legal system is incredibly expensive - the more customers you have, the more you are likely to be exposed to a crazy customer who is going to abuse the system and personally bankrupt you with frivolous lawsuits. Who would want to start a business in that climate?
Re:Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor by pavel_lishin on Monday March 18, 2019 @12:24PM (#19422481)
You're talking about legal liability; deogeo sounds like they're talking about social liability.
Re:Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor by deogeo on Monday March 18, 2019 @12:40PM (#19422644)
Correct.
Re:Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor by dnautics on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @02:58AM (#19428659)
one is free to start a company with those rules in the corporate charter. Heck, I'd even work there, but I'm wouldn't count on my job being around for long.
Re:Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor by deogeo on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @12:00PM (#19432062)
Nor would a company be around for long if it were the only one respecting environmental protections, workplace safety standards, or anti-child-labor laws.
Re:Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor by spamizbad on Monday March 18, 2019 @01:19PM (#19423000)
I'm not sure how this applies in this scenario: It looks like workers, rather than the board, cast a vote of no confidence on the CEO. Publicly traded companies seem to operate fine with boards being able to remove CEOs, so what's the problem here?
Re:Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor by lainga on Monday March 18, 2019 @03:33PM (#19424358)
That is like the concept of sousveillance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
Re:Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor by expertentipp on Monday March 18, 2019 @11:39AM (#19421983)
we need this