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I don't think society is becoming more risk averse. We still do a ton of drugs, drink, drive, fly, fight and commit crimes. As we learn the dangers of things p

I don't think society is becoming more risk averse. We still do a ton of drugs, drink, drive, fly, fight and commit crimes. As we learn the dangers of things people start the arduous process of protesting them. See bpa, Teflon. Both got phased out after years and years of denials and lawsuits. Bpa and Teflon may have been mostly phased out, but they have been replaced by unknowns, which are reasonably expected to be about as bad as their predecessors. Rather, I think the stakes for equivalently sized day to day risks are getting bigger because lives are getting more complicated, and bad bets can snowball a lot easier now. Want to see risk? Take a good long hard look at the speculative and corporatedebt markets. hardly a risk adverse market.

hammock 7y ago
>See bpa, Teflon. Both got phased out Teflon (PTFE) and BPA are nowhere close to being phased out. Every single metal can in America is lined with BPA, and there is pretty much nothing that used to use PTFE that has stopped using it.
- maxerickson 7y ago
  Are you in the canned food industry? https://www.packagingdigest.com/food-packaging/most-food-cans-no-longer-use-bpa-in-their-linings-2018-02-20 https://www.packagingdigest.com/food-packaging/most-food-can...
  - hammock 7y ago
    That is steel cans (food) and good info. However I am curious what they are using to bond the acrylic or polyester lining to the can. Aluminum cans (beverages) have not replaced BPA yet. Here is more info https://cen.acs.org/business/consumer-products/new-epoxy-boot-BPA-cans/97/i10 https://cen.acs.org/business/consumer-products/new-epoxy-boo...