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Most US voters say plastics industry should be held responsible for recycling claims – report
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Remember in the 70s when the cigarette industry said their products were safe?
Remember in the 80s when the candy industry said it was the lack of exercise that was the cause of overweight?
Remember in the 90s when the gun industry pointed the blame to personal responsibility as the cause of school shootings?
Maybe just maybe industries can't self regulate. I can go on.
Whistleblowers should be treated like heroes. Like not just protections where the reward is that they get to keep their job working for a company that is probably going to feel hostile towards them, but reward them so that they don't need to work with that company anymore.
Publically funded science (done in the interest of the public rather than profit for universities or publishers) should also be ramped up so that it has the resources to examine these questions, too.
Also, criminal charges for execs that suppress information that prefers profits over safety.
The CTO of the previous company (1000+ employees , multinational) where I worked as an exec right under the CTO had a habit of not being able to keep his hands to himself. He was married but had a taste for men working under him.
Hed beeen around pulling shit for months until i was called in, i met him in person, he immediately started to "just tickle" me, and I reported his ass right away. Internal investigations were had and they fired him.
But not after allowing him as his final act to fire me because I was "not management material", had nothing to do with me blowing the whistle on him feeling up his employees. The company allowed him to do this because i was now a risk to them.
So the lesson here is to keep your head down, enable abusers, lest you want your career in the shitter
Edit: I fully agree with you, but the way it currently stands it's impossible to fight back to high level execs
Sounds like a slam dunk lawsuit my dude.
This is the way. If every company knew firing a whistleblower would result in a successful lawsuit against them, they would not do it anymore.
According to my brother, the real issue is that there is too much regulation and it is stifling the ability of ethical companies to break into industries 🙄
LOL?
I used to laugh at him yeah but he's managed to fuck up his kids with weird right wing capitalist stuff so it's less funny now
~~LOL~~ 😞...
Please go on, not that I need convincing, but would like to hear more, idk when was led? 60s?
You missed cars. 😁
Pretty sure all those industries continue doing all that shit today