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At a bare minimum any company that helps terrorists or supports any type of human rights abuse should be taken over and made some sort of public commodity.
Like a corporate applied eminent domain. Now all 'profit' goes directly into the community coffer.
Now all ‘profit’ goes directly into the community coffer.
Only after reparations have been made to everyone impacted. I'm sure there were more than eight families who were impacted by Chiquita funding terrorists for eight years and I doubt their abuses were actually limited to those eight years.
Chiquita ordered to pay 38 million fee to kill people.
At least now they actually have to weigh up the costs, before it was free.
For a large corp 38.3M is chump change, though.
Chiquita Brands International's revenue is $3.1 billion. - Chiquita Brands International peak revenue was $3.1B in 2023.
Yep.
You can be negative if you want but this is still a step in the right direction.
If corporations are people (Citizens United) they should be able to be tried and get the death penalty.
Japanese seppuku style for the folks running the company.
So the price to kill someone is 4.75 million? Got it.
As long as the actual people in charge (read: CEO, CTO, CFO, anyone else on the board of directors and any other executives) aren't held directly responsible with a proper punishment that isn't payment, the killing of people is literally just a fee of 4.75 million dollars.
Good start st least.
I need to start a company so I can legally kill people.
You can also just be a police officer in the United States.
Yeah, but I might get held accountable if I kill the wrong race. _cough_white ppl
In Minecraft?
No, maybe a fruit or water company.
Fuck that. Take all the managers at the time, everyone who knew about this deal, and throw them all in jail for 8 counts of murder.
Banana giant death squads. What a world.
Not even the worst thing the US has done for bannanas.
Wait until you learn about the Coca-Cola death squads. I wish I were joking.
all the executives at the company at the time should be in jail or sent to columbia for trial.
Where do you put death squads on your PnL sheet?
"Hey Boeing, hold my beer."
the banana republic never fell
Is it bananas or peanuts?