| ▲ | akagusu 2 hours ago | |
My first question in 2026. Why does such company is allowed to exist and harm society? | ||
| ▲ | jfengel an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
Because companies have only existed for a few hundred years and we still haven't caught up with the idea of making things they do illegal. We tend to pass responsibility to the people who make up the company, rather than the corporation, but the people have gotten pretty good at making it impossible to assign blame to any individual. And you can't cost the owners (shareholders), because of course none of them are at fault, either. Who at Meta is responsible for posting scam ads? Nobody. But Meta isn't responsible, either. So some executive makes a halfhearted promise to do something about it, but without any accountability. The "limited liability" was just supposed to be for debts, but it turned out to be good for laundering responsibility, too. Originally, corporations had fixed term charters. And it might be worth looking at that again. | ||
| ▲ | Jgrubb an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Because money. | ||
| ▲ | timeon an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Because it is based in US. | ||