• bluGill@kbin.social
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    Many industries have discovered the costs of not doing safety first are higher in the long run. You have to pay more workers comp insurance, you have to train replacement workers for those who are injured, you have to scrap/replace parts destroyed, and when someone is injured it affects moral and so your people don’t work well.

    Railroads are throwing money away by not putting safety first - they just don’t realize it.

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      Railroads are in the advantageous position they can get governments to coverup and pay for their failures.

      The government should hold the management who block required work as criminally negligent.

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      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.