> Jail for executives who approve or have knowledge of illegal activities sounds good to me.
Life hack: make your activities so complex and distributed that it's impossible to tell who, exactly, is responsible for what. And then also just delete communications when you can.
Simple solution: You're held liable regardless of if you knew or not. It should be your responsibility to do everything possible within your power to make sure the company you're heading isn't committing illegal acts. If it is and you can't prove you tried everything you possibly can to have control over the situation, tough luck buddy.
Maybe then the inflated CEO salaries will make some form of sense for once, instead of the current system where there's 0 actual risk for them other than a golden parachute waiting for them at the end of the road after having fucked millions of people's lives irrevocably.
Life hack: make your activities so complex and distributed that it's impossible to tell who, exactly, is responsible for what. And then also just delete communications when you can.