Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal

• venusaur@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But they have to be rich, right? I’m interested in the criteria.

  What about a nation that supports a company who produces goods that allow the company to make profit, and the production of the goods harms people’s lives (e.g. pollution or poor working conditions in the production country). Somebody should police that nation. Maybe bomb the nation?

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In that case the people in charge need to be removed. The nation can redeem itself once the greed poisoned leaders are dealt with.

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    • venusaur@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But if the citizens didn’t fund the company’s greed, they wouldn’t exist. Plenty of examples of things people don’t need that they continue to buy, and support unethical business operations leading to harm.

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s some capitalism = commerce bullshit. Capitalism only perverts commerce to its own end of allowing a single person to “own” everything. Commerce existed for over 10,000 years before capitalism existed, and the father of capitalism, Adam Smith, even said that once capitalism has achieved its goals, which we did in the late 1800s according to Adam Smith, that it would be absolutely imperative to transition to a more “socially equitable” [sic] and “sustainable” form of commerce under a direct democratic framework.

        Try using some actual facts rather than feelings in your next reply, also actually read The Theory of Moral Sentiments, and Wealth of Nations. If you are actually literate, you should be able to plow through both texts in two two to three hour readings.

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