alt Hacker NewsList the companies who received a fine worthy of the damage they caused in recent history. List the ones who didn't.
It's not about judging. We are socializing the losses to the public and capitalizing the profits for the already wealthy.
List the companies who received a fine worthy of the damage they caused in recent history. List the ones who didn't.
It's not about judging. We are socializing the losses to the public and capitalizing the profits for the already wealthy.
We dont know the final amount, as they settled out of court, but in 1992 a woman was awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars by the judge after receiving third degree burns from a coffee at a McDonalds.
She had originally asked for $20,000 to cover medical expenses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau...
If instead this happened in another part of the world instead of the USA, I doubt that McDonalds would have had to pay much if anything in a similar situation.
And the point is that it seems that especially in the USA the companies are very avoidant of ever admitting fault for anything happening to their customers, for fear of lawsuits where they have to pay a lot of money to individual people.