I don't see what mining gold or dangerous conditions have to do with this. You could have both without capitalism. The reason I used communist countries as an

I don't see what mining gold or dangerous conditions have to do with this. You could have both without capitalism. The reason I used communist countries as an example is that they're the main recent instance of industrialized societies that didn't have the profit motive to drive innovation, and they support the point made in the editorial. I'm done with this conversation now. This seems likely to turn into the sort of thread that's more of a lawyerly style debate than a collaborative search for truth, and I have a lot to do today.