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You can always put a price on human lives, suffering etc. It's just not nice so we pretend that you can't and assume a posture of indignant outrage when anyone concedes that you can. But what else are you meant to do, really, in this situation, where the only possible compensation is financial?
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> Now it is even more so considering that shareholders, who lost nothing of real value Your point is entirely correct, that people are more valuable than money. The notion that time isn't a real value, is absurd, however. There are very few things worth more than time. Your time is what your money represents under most circumstances. Your savings - millions of people own shares in Boeing, directly or indirectly - is…
I figure if you made the mistake of buying Boeing, that's on you. I don't see why shareholders should be compensated at all. If companies do other kinds of stupid things, and they lose market value, shareholders aren't compensated for that. Why should this be any different?
I’m of the opinion that they should pay for that. Who better to receive the proceeds than those who lost money investing based on flawed disclosures?