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Re:Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing... by bt1a on Monday May 04, 2020 @11:03AM (#23068876)
Because the people in charge are constrained to a narrow goal of bringing returns to shareholders
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Re:Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing... by kiba on Monday May 04, 2020 @11:20AM (#23069067)
What kind of return? Long term or short term?

Destroying a company through mismanagement is decried as evil too.

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Re:Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing... by acdha on Monday May 04, 2020 @11:25AM (#23069134)
Theoretically but there are far more examples of people getting extremely rich than suffering consequences, especially in a period where deregulation means the odds are overwhelmingly in favor of punishment being a tiny fraction of the profits.
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