A person on their own can kill maybe a few hundred people. White collar crimes have killed tens of thousands. Its hard not to look at the Bhopal disaster (union carbide India was 50.1,% USA owned) and think that wasn't violent
A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes.
It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.
It's similarly difficult to look at what Enron did and think oh it's fine. Like I doubt those rolling blackouts didn't cost lives nevermind the indirect effects
I toured the Icelandic parliament when I visited in 2017. In front is a really striking, somber piece of public art that symbolizes the cleavage in trust between the Icelandic public and their political and financial leaders: a giant black stone riven with a deep crack. What a reminder.
My dad opposed the death penalty for individual crimes but said he could support it for corporate crimes that kill people -- he said those destroy the social contract way more than personal rage or greed.
Kinda all comes downstream of the legal creation of incorporation. Layers and layers of protections for capital and blanket risk of harm to everyone else.
