[tacos]

Estimate states it did less than half a billion of dollars of damage to human lives, the environment, and the economy.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/29/vw-excess-emissions-linked-to...

Allowing some New World Judge the power to destroy all international subsidiaries of a global corporation with 610,067 employees at the stroke of a pen might not improve the situation.

[SwellJoe]

Citation?

WikiPedia places the economic cost at $39+ billion, by one measure.

"A peer-reviewed study published in Environmental Pollution estimated that the fraudulent emissions are associated with 45 thousand disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and a value of life lost of at least 39 billion US dollars."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal#D...

[kuschku]

Yes, that’s the additional cost from the NOx. But the cars produced in contrast far less CO2 than advertised – offsetting many of the costs.

[lostlogin]

The world police allow themselves to do this to countries, so why not corporations? And at what deaths/corporation employee number does killing the corporation become ok? Presumably there is a value? I don't know it.