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Training a Guineapig army
I liked the movie Wall Street where Gordon Gecko corectly stated "greed is good".
Greed can be good. Often, stupid mistakes are made because of greed. When and if they violate the law and are negligent and cause damage to others there are laws in place to make folks whole and prisons available for folks to go after they are convicted.
Everyone that drives a car is at fault. The demand for oil and the negligence of BP, not greed, caused this one.
They were probably negligent, but they're responsible even if they were by the book. But potentially, the entities that were supposed to be providing oversight could bear some responsibility as well. The regulators are an instrument of the Federal Government; In other words, us.
So if there is discrepancy between the massive cleanup and BP's willingness to pay, we'd have to drag them to court. Even if we win, a cleanup of that magnitude could rapidly kill even a giant like BP, meaning they go bankrupt and the taxpayer pays for the effort. Due to the corporate form, the officers and every employee walk away with what they've got.