> No. Companies should not be allowed to do crime, and the punishment should be proportional to the harm they caused, not to the revenue hypothesized by the scheme.

It is proportional to the harm. And it is a massive multiplier over the amount earned by the scheme. If JJ only did Talc, they would be dead many hundreds of times over. But Talc is a tiny sliver of what they do. So they happen to be large enough to survive a massive blow from their talc operations.

Think about what you’re saying. It does not make any sense. You seem to be upset mostly that JJ still exists. Which is only true because they are large and diverse in many products that are completely unrelated to the line of business that caused the problem.

> A crime syndicate does not have to pay 2000 times the amount they would have gained by smuggling drugs, no their mules go to jail, their CEO is hunted down by the military, and their whole organization is disbanded. Nobody cares about the workers in this instance (I wonder why).

Because those workers are criminals, not office workers and factory workers, the vast majority of whom are ordinary Americans doing normal, productive, legal jobs that are unrelated to the fact that talc had asbestos.