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[–] qooqie 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Stop suing! They don’t care they can make more money through lying. Start jailing them!

It’ll never happen, but I wish 🙁

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Lawsuits that lead to companies paying externalities are an OK idea.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Stop suing! They don’t care they can make more money through lying. Start jailing them!

They only care about money. That's why hurting their profits is an effective method to change what they do.

Imagine renewable electricity was 10 times more profitable than generating it from fossil fuels. Of course they would want to be clean energy barons. Lawsuits can make a business less profitable, can make investments more risky. So this is good! I agree jailing would be a much stronger incentive.

But to put someone into jail, you also have to sue them first, don't you? At least that's what my translator suggests.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't be sad to see vigilante justice against them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Or just start making them pay back more than they've made by lying.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

CA needs the money though