515
top 16 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 74 points 10 months ago

Awesome when humans litter and then go "Nah, too expensive to clean up..."

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 60 points 10 months ago

Just once I'd love to see a major government force a company into bankruptcy by making them clean up their own mess.

Company: "We can't clean up our industrial mining waste, it's too expensive and we would go under!"

Government: ~~okay well we will have the taxpayers pay for it. Here have a bailout. Remember, daddy loves you so much~~ "Oh then I guess you should have factored that into your costs. Get to work. And when you have no more money to pay for others to clean it up for you, we expect to see the executives and management out there with gloves and a can-do attitude"

[-] Tyfud@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

It happens semi-regularly. Unfortunately it doesn't turn out like you'd think.

The company immediately bankrupts itself, but all of its assets and funds are protected by S-Corp and LLC chicanery; so they end up paying less than they would have if they stayed afloat and got fined, and now they've got a "new" company with the same people doing the same thing that's protected from lawsuits.

Because that's how we designed the system.

And by we, I mean the oligarchs that keep us fighting among ourselves instead of at them.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Eliminate the corporate veil. The people making and benefiting from the decisions made by corporations should be the ones liable, not some entity that doesn't really exist and can be made to truly not exist if continuing pretending to exist cuts off the money train.

Though this would require fixing the justice and political systems first, since they've been corrupted by people who think this is the way things should look.

[-] Tyfud@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Totally agreed. Unfortunately I don't see it happening in our lifetimes.

Would love to be wrong here though.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Happened all the time, that's why companies need to pay into escrow now (or whatever it's called).

And it really doesn't help much because the mess is still there.

[-] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 months ago

I'd love that, honestly. Too bad most politicians don't have the (figurative) balls for that

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It should only get complicated, if the company who lost the container doesn't exist anymore.

Wait, isn't this meme ages old already? Are the Garphones still there?

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

No, the original meme was made ... in 1976 so 50 years ago, problem solved.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago

They should make it a tourism thing. I unironically want to go Garf-phone picking at Le Mer du Chat in France.

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 17 points 10 months ago

Ahaha, I almost believed you that that was the real name of the town, but mer is feminine

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Good catch! The actual name is Le Merde du Chat

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

It looks like somebody's got a case of the Mondays.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 7 points 10 months ago

I always wanted one of these.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

You should go to France, then.

this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2024
515 points (99.0% liked)

Greentext

6855 readers
521 users here now

This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

Be warned:

If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS