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I love this mental gymnastics. C levels are payd millions for "the burden of responsibility", but somehow medium wage guy somewhere in Korea is responsible.
Whether you were well compensated for your wrongs doesn't affect whether you did them. They are all responsible.
Uh huh.

And when you're "wrong in isolation of the task to complete" is completely legal, you still want to destroy engineers and developers. That engineer doesnt know your illegal shit plan to do horrible thing. Most engineers, if told to do illegal stuff, would refuse.

That C level DOES know the illegal plan to do horrible thing, and their staff attorneys said you could make $20 billion, and pay $1 billion in fines if caught. I say RICO the fucking C levels for an ongoing criminal conspiracy, and depending how severe, death penalty.

And remember, we're talking about Samsung violating wiretapping laws, which is a criminal crime, and not some tort. I want blood here from management who ordered this, not a few dollars on a godsdamned voucher to buy yet another Scamsung device.

But no, your idea is to blame the rank and file folks who have maybe 5% of the plan, and legal at that, and blame them. Nah, you sound like a simp.

My idea, as I've repeated multiple times, is to blame everyone, and yes, I think they should all be criminally liable. You're the one who seems to think only business people can do wrong, and are perfectly willing to go to bat for the people who actually design and build these systems.

We're not limited to a bounded amount of blame to divvy out. We can blame the mob boss and the hitmen.