“Punitive damages” in a search engine of your choice should clear things up.

That’s certainly a hot take. Watch a few legal eagle videos, the justice system in most countries are based on either incarceration or money. There’s not much more you can do to punish someone.

Civil suits can’t cause someone to go to jail, so literally the only option is owing money. If the perpetrator is wealthy, then it takes a lot of money to punish them. That money goes somewhere, and it’s typically the person who brought the suit, otherwise there’s no incentive to bring these kinds of lawsuits to court.

So… what’s the alternative? Just shrug and say there’s no way to resolve this, go about your day?

This change would definitely get companies to change their behavior, make it a rounding error in the millionth of a percent region. That will definitely get them to behave differently.

What would be the plan, in your perfect world, to get companies not make the same mistake again? Ideal version would be nice to know, and maybe we can agree on that. But given that we’re not in the perfect world, what would you say the way to change company behavior is at this this exact point in time?

Why is a woman whose child is murdered through corporate malfeasance less deserving of wealth than the CEO whose ability to vacillate gets them a bonus whether the company does good or bad?

Why is she less deserving than some rando who won the birth lottery?

Or, hell, a rando who just won a lottety lottery?

But many corporations deserve to lose billions in a singãe suit.

All you keep responding with is “doesnt deserve that much” without replying to any comment that explains the payout isnt all for the plaintiff but also to ensure the guilty defendant doesnt commit the same offense ever again. Are you just ignoring that aspect or do you have any recommendations for better ways toake sure it would happen. Subsequently if your problem only resodes with the plaintiff recieving that much money, who do you propose the punitive damages sum goes to?

ITT, OP is about to start complaining about how actual unpopular opinions get downvoted despite not actually engaging in good faith.

I agree with you.

The worst aspect of it is that for every person who wins a suit, there are a dozen more who suffered the exact same situation who get nothing. It’s simply unfair.