The chief of Volkswagen resigned this week with a severance
pay in the region of 28 million Euros.
He was forced to resign after his
position became untenable.
The company got caught out by a sharp witted American
regulator who noticed a Trojan horse in German cars. Software it is, to fiddle diesel
emissions to read below their reality in order to meet US standards.
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East Germany's notorious two stroke Trabants, (Trabbie)
pollute Berlin’s
Unter Den Linden Boulevard in 1989 during the fall of the
Wall.
The manufacturer Sachsenring AG went bankrupt.
In 2006 it was purchased
by GmbH HQM of Leipzig.
The company now supplies the Volkswagen factory
with parts for Golf and Passat models.
Image Berlin 1989
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Apparently the standards are silly figures in the first
place. Everyone does it in the EU.
Fiddle that is. The Greeks did it; the French never take EU rules seriously,
just like their German colleagues. The East Europeans refuse refugee quotas
even though many migrated West after Communism fell in 1989. None is exempt. The
list is complete.
So what's the all the hullabaloo about. Well for one thing- it is the normalisation
of wrongness and the acceptance of cheating as common practice. This may be
human nature, as we say and why try to change it.
But it is not really human nature to be a victim no
matter what the cause or the excuses.
Lying is killing people for bigger sales quota and beefier
bank sheets. If even one is found to have
died as a result of corporate lies to increase its wealth then it is a crime. Or maybe not a crime.
Hey, this is going on all the time. That’s what corporations
and people do. It’s called free speech. It is not a crime to lie, unless it
breaks a specific law, no, it’s just a breach of standards. And for that breach
some get labelled as lairs and some get 28 million Euros.
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