{"id":79683,"key":"Towards_Quantifiable_Metrics_Warranting_Industry-Wide_Corporate_Death_Penalties","title":"Towards Quantifiable Metrics Warranting Industry-Wide Corporate Death Penalties","latest":{"id":1229515,"timestamp":"2026-02-01T15:21:05Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{MOST}}\n\n{{Pearce publications notice}}\n\n{{Publication data\n| type = Paper\n| cite-as = Joshua M. Pearce. [https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/8/2/62 Towards Quantifiable Metrics Warranting Industry-Wide Corporate Death Penalties]. ''Soc. Sci.'' 2019, 8(2), 62; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci8020062 [https://www.academia.edu/38378473/Towards_Quantifiable_Metrics_Warranting_Industry-Wide_Corporate_Death_Penalties open access]\n}}\n\nIn the singular search for profits, some corporations inadvertently kill humans. If this routinely occurs throughout an industry, it may no longer serve a net positive social purpose for society and should be eliminated. This article provides a path to an objective quantifiable metric for determining when an entire industry warrants the corporate death penalty. First, a theoretical foundation is developed with minimum assumptions necessary to provide evidence for corporate public purposes. This is formed into an objective quantifiable metric with publicly-available data and applied to two case studies in the U.S.: the tobacco and coal mining industries. The results show the American tobacco industry kills 4 times more people per year than it employs, and the American coal-mining industry kills more than one American every year for every coal miner employed. The results clearly warrant industry-wide corporate death penalties for both industries in America. 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