alt Hacker NewsThat's not an inherently bad practice. I'd much rather there be two way flow between industry and government than have people who have never tried to run a business doing regulation or those who have never worked in government trying to comply with regulations. Strong ethics rules and culture is the way you manage the downside, not bans.
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salawat • today at 4:45 PM
The hell do you work where ethics culture exists in business? I gotta be looking in the wrong places, because all I ever see is lip service granted to ethics until they threaten the bottom line, then suddenly they disappear.
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right, it worked really well for the 737 Max: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/how-t... | https://www.pogo.org/commentaries/corrupted-oversight-the-fa...
and the 2008 financial crisis: https://sunlightfoundation.com/2008/11/24/the-revolving-door...
just to name two obscure examples that had some small impact on society