I am not saying we should ignore people&#x27;s job descriptions; in fact, I was responding to one comment in the thread that was trying to put equal blame on the EPA too.<p>But I want to bring out an important aspect here: if the USA (mainly its people) fail to punish VW and its criminal leaders (along with the shareholders who backed, rewarded those leaders) in an exemplary manner, then some people will keep on blaming its capitalist economy based democracy for being too soft on &quot;big and rich&quot; while punishing severely only &quot;poor people&quot; even for smaller scale crimes.<p>The VW leaders should be put behind bars for something like 30 years and its big shareholders (the ones holding more 0.1% of its total shares, say) be punished monetarily by legally declaring their shares to be void. If US cannot do this because Germany wouldn&#x27;t allow it to do so, then USA should ban the VW and all the companies associated with VW or its parent companies to do any business in US.<p>What has currently happened with VW in the name of punishment is pure farce. Its shares are still trading at non-zero positive value. And its leaders enjoying multi-million dollars in rewards for the criminal behavior. The justice has become farce in this case.<p>&gt;&gt;Or we might as well say all humanity has failed, or God has failed,<p>Yes, you can say so. But at least now we don&#x27;t have a world-wide single state. As a god or gods (whether he, she, it or they (multiple gods)) are concerned, we don&#x27;t know for sure whether the things called gods exist or not, so saying god failed doesn&#x27;t get us much far.