This assumes it is a top down decision in the first place. Often it is not such a decision. To assume an intellectual hierarchy is a fallacy. You will face an extremely grey area of prosecuting tens or hundreds of people with no clear person to blame. In other words, dichotomous logic is always wrong and reflective of a lack of fundamental logic skills and life experience. The solution is real capitalism where every infraction is cause for failure., and no favoritism exists. Size should be an insurmountable burden in real capitalism. Then a well informed citizen, like a real democracy, is the regulating factor instead of an untenable and inept authoritarian bureaucracy.