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Consumer rights were not quite so strong back then....

• chris_va 9y ago
  I'm curious if inspections were even a thing back then... This predates the era of locking your employees in during their shift.
• LordKano 9y ago
  Consumer rights, perhaps not but property rights may well have been stronger.
  • Avshalom 9y ago
    (n.b. American) In 1814 the king may still have technically owned everything (including the people) involved.
• _jal 9y ago
  And PR flacks had yet to fully develop the art of blaming third-party contractors whose primary function is to serve as a legal cutout, leaving god to take more heat is customary than today.
• em3rgent0rdr 9y ago
  "consumer rights" wouldn't be a relevant issue in this case, even today, considering that the people killed weren't necessarily customers.