Wells Fargo, a relatively small player on Wall Street, racked up the most fines Tuesday, with a total of $200 million in penalties.

Banks hit with $549 million in fines for use of Signal, WhatsApp to evade regulators’ reach::Wells Fargo, a relatively small player on Wall Street, racked up the most fines Tuesday, with a total of $200 million in penalties.

  • J12@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1873·
    1 year ago

    I break the law, I go to jail. A corporation breaks the law they get a fine the equivalent of a parking ticket.

    If corporations want to be people it’s time we start treating them like people. CEOs and Execs in prison. Actual fines that hurt the bottom line. And for the really egregious: shut them down, or if they’re “too big to fail” we can let the government take over or break them up into dozens of small companies ex: Baby Bells

    • ech0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      594·
      1 year ago

      Wells Fargo is worth 163 billion. That $200 million fine is literally 0.12% of their Net worth.

      In comparison

      The average US salary is $59,428. A parketing ticket on average is about $80

      That parketing ticket is 0.13% of that Salary.

      So this “fine” is in fact cheaper than a parking ticket.

      • Frodo@startrek.websiteEnglish
        15·
        1 year ago

        You can’t compare worth with income. A better comparison might be profits, which were $15B for past 12 months. So Wells Fargo’s penalty is 1.3% of their “salary.” Even if you go by revenue, it’s greater than your parking ticket example. I get that they are an evil corporation, but accuracy matters.

      • girlfreddy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Yup. The fines should be 10-20% of profits for the time period, per charge, depending on the severity.

        That would got their gd attention.

        • Ignisnex@lemmy.worldEnglish
          131·
          1 year ago

          Never profits, always revenue. Profits can be gobbled up by some internal bonus or “future investment in a project”, thus making it $0. Revenue is all the money generated before allocations and expenses come out. Much harder to weasle out of.

      • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Sometimes I don’t feed the meter if I don’t think a meter maid will get to my car before the parking hours end. I just fuckin risk it.

    • JustAThought@lemm.eeEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      Some countries have speeding fines set to a percentage of your pre-tax income. A student is hurt as much as a CEO. This should be the same.

    • TwoGems@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Agreed. They harm people all day with defective products and the solution is “lol here have this fine that barely hurts you”

      • EvilBit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’m genuinely ignorant, but is the owner’s protection against the company failing due to standard bad luck/mismanagement/cursed frogurt, the company doing blatantly illegal things under their direction, or both?

    • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      I believe the federal government has the power of the corporate death penalty, they just never use it.

      At this point I’d rather we be like Asian countries and start jailing the CEOs.

    • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Companies in prison. Unable to operate for whatever length their sentence is. When they come out, they will forever be considered a felon and will not be able to do business with most other companies.

    • kaizervonmaanen@reddthat.comEnglish
      43·
      1 year ago

      Of you put CEOs and Execs in prison then you are not treating corporations like people. If you do something illegal then they put you in prison. Not your CEO or Execs.

    • sol@lemm.eeEnglish
      319·
      1 year ago

      Nobody’s sending you to jail for using WhatsApp.