Railroad companies have penalized workers for taking the time to make needed repairs and created a culture in which supervisors threaten and fire the very people hired to keep trains running safely. Regulators say they can’t stop this intimidation.
That math doesn’t always work out that way. We see it all of the time when corporations ignore regulations, and then just pay the fines as a cost of doing business.
It’s fucked up that this is the system we’ve chosen for ourselves. That human safety comes down to whether or not the math makes sense for the company’s bottom line.
Then you have libertarians who think that’s just fine, and that the “free market” will “correct itself.” I guess the employees that are maimed or die in the process are just collateral damage. Eventually, the consumer will be aware (somehow?) that the process of making the product they want is dangerous and has killed people, and then they’ll stop buying the product. Right? Right…?
Lol. I was trying to think of something to say about that last paragraph, but I think the ideology speaks for itself.
That math doesn’t always work out that way. We see it all of the time when corporations ignore regulations, and then just pay the fines as a cost of doing business.
It’s fucked up that this is the system we’ve chosen for ourselves. That human safety comes down to whether or not the math makes sense for the company’s bottom line.
Then you have libertarians who think that’s just fine, and that the “free market” will “correct itself.” I guess the employees that are maimed or die in the process are just collateral damage. Eventually, the consumer will be aware (somehow?) that the process of making the product they want is dangerous and has killed people, and then they’ll stop buying the product. Right? Right…?
Lol. I was trying to think of something to say about that last paragraph, but I think the ideology speaks for itself.