If a cop, nurse, doc, etc make a mistake on the job that harms others or costs others their life they can be criminally and personally prosecuted. When CEOs do extremely harmful things they walk free. At worst the company they headed owes money or gets regulated by the govt. Often any punishment fees for the corps transgression is less than the amount the company made in profits (so it is like a cost of doing business/a tax more than anything). Until CEOs go to jail and have their personal assets liquidated for egregious, criminal behavior they will continue to do things like this. If an ordinary citizen messes up they go to jail. If an ordinary citizen messes up financially, they lose their assets and everything they worked for their entire lives, and they go bankrupt. When the elite mess up, the blame goes to the corporation as a whole even though the execs in power made decisions and covered things up intentionally. The CEO/execs who made the decision/s walk free. If the elite run into financial trouble, they are like the big banks or auto industry during the Great Recession and are considered "too big to fail". They then get bailed out by the tax payers. Seems like a fair and just system of rules huh??!
3M has never had to face any responsibility for their crimes they’ve committed on our quality of life now for decades. This video will still only get a tiny fraction of a story about someone stealing a car, I’m sure.
Gee, one of my coworkers who had told of being an inspector with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and forced from his position by pressure from 3M, had said the same thing. 30 years ago now, Wow, Maybe he was telling the truth. Then there was another coworker who swore at mention of 3M, blaming them for the ghastly manner of death of his father from a blood cancer. His father a 3M factory worker where the water repellent and other chemicals were formulated, disciplined for refusing to clean equipment without the required safety gear and then the tale of the financial cost of the medical treatment. Hopefully by now all traces of the company archives have been destroyed, one of my college classmates first jobs... Just think, there is a little bit of a chemical made in Minnesota in the blood of almost every human being on the planet! "The Min Uh So Tah CUN Neck Shun"
1:53 It’s not enough to publish the findings in “publicly available journals”. They should have done a lot more. But as many regulations as we have, they are not really enforcing anything!
Both the EPA and 3M deserve to be sued into oblivion. As far as I'm concerned, 3M should also be completely dismantled.
If a cop, nurse, doc, etc make a mistake on the job that harms others or costs others their life they can be criminally and personally prosecuted. When CEOs do extremely harmful things they walk free. At worst the company they headed owes money or gets regulated by the govt. Often any punishment fees for the corps transgression is less than the amount the company made in profits (so it is like a cost of doing business/a tax more than anything). Until CEOs go to jail and have their personal assets liquidated for egregious, criminal behavior they will continue to do things like this.
If an ordinary citizen messes up they go to jail. If an ordinary citizen messes up financially, they lose their assets and everything they worked for their entire lives, and they go bankrupt. When the elite mess up, the blame goes to the corporation as a whole even though the execs in power made decisions and covered things up intentionally. The CEO/execs who made the decision/s walk free. If the elite run into financial trouble, they are like the big banks or auto industry during the Great Recession and are considered "too big to fail". They then get bailed out by the tax payers. Seems like a fair and just system of rules huh??!
3M has never had to face any responsibility for their crimes they’ve committed on our quality of life now for decades. This video will still only get a tiny fraction of a story about someone stealing a car, I’m sure.
Gee, one of my coworkers who had told of being an inspector with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and forced from his position by pressure from 3M, had said the same thing.
30 years ago now, Wow, Maybe he was telling the truth.
Then there was another coworker who swore at mention of 3M, blaming them for the ghastly manner of death of his father from a blood cancer. His father a 3M factory worker
where the water repellent and other chemicals were formulated, disciplined for refusing to clean equipment without the required safety gear and then the tale of the financial cost
of the medical treatment.
Hopefully by now all traces of the company archives have been destroyed, one of my college classmates first jobs...
Just think, there is a little bit of a chemical made in Minnesota in the blood of almost every human being on the planet!
"The Min Uh So Tah CUN Neck Shun"
1:53 It’s not enough to publish the findings in “publicly available journals”. They should have done a lot more. But as many regulations as we have, they are not really enforcing anything!
In other words, the ESOP (Employee Stock Option Plan) came before the PFAS.
To catch a polluter
Shut them down & send everything to Russia