Originally Posted by
DeltaboundRedux
The real problem: Corporate officers are no longer held criminally liable for corporate malfeasance. The haven't been since the Enron debacle which tanked not just Enron but the accounting firm Arthur Anderson which led to tens of thousands of job losses.
Matt Taibbi wrote a great book about this. "The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap".
Highly recommended.
It's not just corporate...when is the last time you've heard of a govt official (bureaucrat) being held accountable for incompetence or malfeasance? Other than the occasional political hack that gets forced out, most just retire to obscurity.