Capitalists Without Bars

[flwyd]

Among the many imbalances between labor and capital is what happens during detention.

If a laborer is in jail for a year, he loses a year's worth of wages. (Setting aside the other consequences of likely losing his job.)

If a capitalist is in jail for a year, still receives a year's worth of investment growth. He might even be able to change his investment mix if he's able to get a message to his agents.

And a corporate person can't be arrested at all.

Comments

[amaebi]

Good points.

[siderea]

Oooh, excellently observed.

[randomdreams]

I've been advocating for a while for corporate prison: when convicted of a felony, the corporation must cease all business activities for the amount of time of the sentence.
(It would be devastating to employees, I grant you, but I hope that would be a short-term issue until everyone got that it did actually happen, and would act to circumvent the simple calculus of we-will-make-more-by-doing-this-and-paying-the-fine.)

[slyviolet]

It's almost like capitalism is bad for people.