• Garbanzo@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Did those guys not get fired?

    Oh dang, apologies to the hive mind. Volkswagen bad, evil employees, actively attempting to destroy the earth, cannot be deterred or corrected. We good now?

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      11 months ago

      Do you really think the people in charge and responsible for that decision are the ones who got fired? Do you really think that’s how accountability works in giant mega corporations?

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        11 months ago

        Yeah, I actually went and looked it up and found that many of the executives responsible resigned or got fired, and some went to prison, but let’s not let that interrupt our circle jerk.

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          11 months ago

          So some of them broke the law and just resigned or were fired, only a few were jailed?

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              11 months ago

              You’re not wrong, I’d forgotten the first comment said fired, stupid of me.

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              11 months ago

              Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

              Oliver Schmidt (born January 9, 1969) is a German engineer, former senior executive for Volkswagen in Germany and the United States as well as a convicted felon. In December 2017, Schmidt was sentenced to 84 months (7 years) in federal prison for his role in the Volkswagen emissions scandal. He was the second German national, after James Robert Liang, to be convicted and sees himself as pawn sacrifice in the entire case.

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      11 months ago

      Not only that, a lot of the board ended up in prison, which didn’t happen for the other automakers that also had illegally high emissions (all of them).

      VW was pretty much the only automaker who got held accountable for their crimes, and took the wrap for everyone both in terms of the law and public opinion.

      Some others broke emissions standards by a much greater amount (cough, FIAT-Chrysler cough Toyota cough Hyundai/KIA).