Originally Posted by Rated De
But we're far less certain about how to feel about – and what to do with – group wrongdoing.
Fortunately badly behaving individuals are mortal and and have a guaranteed long term obsolescence mode, ie death to somewhat limiting the damage they may inflict to the rest of society.
On the other hand, Companies do not. The legal change in the mid to late 1800's that guaranteed this immortality was the recognition of the right of a company to have the same rights as a human, but without the built in mechanism of obsolescence. Managers then seized control of these immortal aggregations of capital and power for their own gain.
An excellent historical work on the subject:
Gangs of America The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy in pdf format from the authors website.