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We really do need a way to send companies to prison. If you behave like that as an individual, you are getting jailed. We obviously can't jail a company, but simply slapping some fine on them for criminal behaviour while their henchmen might get prison time is not the best way forward. So we might need something like "if your company is doing crimes, it gets disbanded" or so.
Hold the board liable.
Yup. Jail everyone director level and above who had knowledge of the crime and didn't report it.
Well we'd have to build bigger prisons, and we'd have to ban privately owned prisons otherwise it would become an infinite loop.
I'd only go after those with exec roles since some board members have no direct control over anything but policy, not execution.