The CEO can’t be held personally liable for the actions of the company, for example; their underlings could have been responsible and kept the leader in the dark.
The onus should be on the company to prove their employees kept the CEO in the dark, not the other way around.
voracitude@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The law is a funny creature. I own a business myself (just started, actually!) and it would suck to be brought up on charges I have no idea about but I’m being held personally liable for. I’m grateful for the LLC protection in that case. Of course, I’m also not planning on committing any crimes, nor having my business commit crimes, so it’s a minor worry. Really only important in the event the law gets weaponised against the people, say for example by a foreign asset in high office… 😬
snooggums@piefed.world 2 days ago
So you like the benefit of being on top of the hierarchy without the responsibility.
Congrats.
voracitude@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hahahahaha okay, buddy. Spoken like someone who’s never been held to account for the actions of others over whom you have no actual authority or power. When I was in the military, I was put in charge of the supply closet and I had to keep it in order to the Staff Sergeant’s specifications. However, my entire Flight had access to that supply closet, and they fucked it up relentlessly. Whose ass, at the end of the day? Mine. How was I supposed to stop it? Fuck you, that’s how.
If I am willingly commissioning crimes through my business, lock me the fuck up. If someone does it in my name and I had no idea, is what the law is there to protect me from. What am I supposed to do if someone does crimes in my business in my name? Fire them, right? So what, you think that being fired is a deterrent from anyone doing crimes? No, of course not. So I ask you again, what actual consequences could I bring to bear on someone who did that?
Let me ask you this. If the rule was that you are responsible for the crimes of your subordinates, no matter what, would you ever risk starting a business or hiring anyone? Most people wouldn’t. How is an economy supposed to flourish under those conditions?
Yours is actually one of the dumbest takes I’ve read on the internet. You sure as shit won the Dumbass Take Of The Day award, and the competition wasn’t even close.
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The problem is that once the law has been weaponized against the people, the only laws that matter are the ones they are using to harm you.
voracitude@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yes, that is indeed the fact I was downplaying as “minor”. I have an even bigger target on my back, and I’m a lot less mobile with all my answers tied up like this.