This idea was originally meant for my educational online store, Level 4, Topics Privacy, Whistleblowers and Scandals.
A story about whistleblowers, how valuable but rare they are, etc.
About companies doing bad stuff, but just paying fines to get away from it/prevent government from prosecuting. That this is so normal it’s just a “routine cost”—they factor it in when accounting in advance, knowing they’ll be doing illegal stuff.
About someone who aspires to be a special agent, best of the bunch, join the secret agency. But they’re rejected … so then they start working for one such bad company and start immediately sending its secrets through to that secret agency.
In the end, they bring them down, and the agency DOES allow them in. (“If you want your illegal business to stay secret, don’t hire an aspiring CIA officer.”)
About WHY this came to be this way: punishing a COMPANY means indirectly punishing all the employees working for it, who likely did nothing wrong. (At the same time, punishing a COMPANY means basically never actually punishing the individual people who did the illegal thing.) Show this side, explore it, though still make clear that a company SHOULD end immediately if it’s done illegal shit of too high a level.
This is ESPECIALLY relevant for companies that make stuff like cars or planes. Things that actually caused deadly accidents and serious injuries … and when they realize, they decide to keep it secret and work really hard to just refuse to acknowledge it and burn any proof.