There should be a rule that shareholders get fined as well whenever a company they invested in gets fined for breaking the law. Then maybe investors will be a bit more responsible in deciding who to invest in.

Own 0.0001% of the company shares? Pay 0.0001% of that 250 million dollar fine.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

I mean, they already do that in a way, because their stocks lose value when the company loses money. That's why everyone and their hamster is selling off these stocks now.

But sure, making the investors pay another time or just generally increasing fines could help.
Unfortunately, companies then lobby for Nazis to take over government to undo these increased fines + abolish law enforcement for themselves, so that's not terribly ideal either...