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Originally Posted by KSig RC
Because this is, to be blunt, completely untenable as a system..
The dollar value of dignity could be anything from $0.75 to $750,000 depending on whether the loss of job possibilities, etc. are truthful and correct. The dollar value of a recovery possible from a manager at McDonald's could probably be anything from $3 to maybe $30,000 over the course of decades (and worth less at present-day value).
Simply put, the agent of direct harm likely can't produce a sufficient recovery. So what now? Do you just say "too bad"? The ramifications of that seem much worse than the small chance of an illegitimate recovery when liability is extended to the corporate entity.
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Okay, so then we go to the sort of general fund idea where we're all self insured against dumbassery of our own or other people's making. (ETA: along with my dueling pistols suggestion earlier, could we consider a debtors' prison for people who make too little money for sufficient recovery but who are the actual agents of harm? I'm not really serious, but one of the really perplexing parts when you think about it, is how little responsibility the actual wrong-doers will have to take.)
Seriously, I don't know how it ought to work, but I'm apparently a whole lot less satisfied with the present system than the lawyers on this thread which probably reflects at least two things: if I had more direct experience, I might change my mind and if you are already making a living within the present system, you probably buy in more.