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The problem is, the population has expanded since then. Every new individual born is a new lawsuit vector. The scale of acceptable risk has been tipped towards
by Andrex 5y ago
The problem is, the population has expanded since then. Every new individual born is a new lawsuit vector. The scale of acceptable risk has been tipped towards higher safety standards, and I don't think we're putting that genie back in the bottle as the population on Earth continues to grow.
- Jeff_Brown 5y agoI don't think the population argument makes sense. The number of lawsuits a company is exposed to will rise linearly with the number of bottles they sell, whereas their profits rise (due to fixed costs) more than linearly as a function of sales.