[HN Gopher] Return to Work and Dying on the Job
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       Return to Work and Dying on the Job
        
       Author : mpweiher
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2024-09-29 20:09 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | ToucanLoucan wrote:
       | I'm kinda sidestepping the actual topic here, admittedly, but:
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       | > It's not like Wells Fargo treats its workers badly but does
       | well by everyone else. Remember, those fake accounts existed as
       | part of a fraud on the company's investors. The company went on
       | to steal $76m from its customers on currency conversions. They
       | also foreclosed on customers who were up to date on their
       | mortgages, seizing and selling off all their possessions. They
       | argued that when bosses pressured tellers into forging customers
       | on fraudulent account-opening paperwork, that those customers had
       | lost their right to sue, since the fraudulent paperwork had a
       | binding arbitration clause. When they finally agreed to pay
       | restitution to their victims, they made the payments opt-in,
       | ensuring that most of the millions of people they stole from
       | would never get their money back. .... They stole millions with
       | fraudulent "home warranties." They stole millions from small
       | businesses with fake credit-card fees. They defrauded 800,000
       | customers through an insurance scam, and stole 25,000 customers'
       | cars with illegal repos. They led the pre-2008 pack on mis-
       | selling deceptive mortgages that blew up and triggered the
       | foreclosure epidemic. They loaned vast sums to Trump, who slashed
       | their taxes, and then they fired 26.000 workers and did a $40.6B
       | stock buyback. They stole 525 homes from mortgage borrowers and
       | blamed it on a "computer glitch":
       | 
       | In any kind of remotely just and sensible society, this
       | corporation would be shut the fuck down by authorities, have it's
       | assets liquidated, it's leadership imprisoned, and the trademark
       | barred from use for 50 years. The sheer _volume_ of horseshit a
       | company of sufficient size can get away with here bends the mind.
        
         | hiatus wrote:
         | > In any kind of remotely just and sensible society, this
         | corporation would be shut the fuck down by authorities, have
         | it's assets liquidated, it's leadership imprisoned, and the
         | trademark barred from use for 50 years. The sheer volume of
         | horseshit a company of sufficient size can get away with here
         | bends the mind.
         | 
         | Which society would act differently?
        
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