poor people go to jail when they get caught committing crimes. wealthy people pay a fine and move on with their lives. usually the fine is small enough that they can just treat it as a cost of doing business.
when people can commit crimes without feeling any real consequences, vigilante justice like this is an entirely predictable outcome.
(and of course, there’s a whole additional layer to this problem, where there’s a ton of corporate malfeasance and misbehavior that harms society but technically isn’t a crime because of some loophole or another…those child labor law violations are one of the few examples where employing children is unambiguously against the law as well as being relatively easy to prove)
(my attorney has advised me to state that I think murdering CEOs is *checks notes* wrong)
tangentially related:
11 children worked ‘dangerous’ night shift at Iowa pork plant, investigators say
Burger King, Popeyes fined more than $2 million for violating child labor laws
poor people go to jail when they get caught committing crimes. wealthy people pay a fine and move on with their lives. usually the fine is small enough that they can just treat it as a cost of doing business.
when people can commit crimes without feeling any real consequences, vigilante justice like this is an entirely predictable outcome.
(and of course, there’s a whole additional layer to this problem, where there’s a ton of corporate malfeasance and misbehavior that harms society but technically isn’t a crime because of some loophole or another…those child labor law violations are one of the few examples where employing children is unambiguously against the law as well as being relatively easy to prove)
It is wrong and very illegal, but unfortunately ethical