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From "Fight Club": > A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyon
by gabrielsroka 4y ago
From "Fight Club":
> A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
- tmm84 4y agoThis logic was every business management class I took in a nutshell. Even if it seems like a rotten low-down thing to do the objective to make money and reduce cost.
- Jroze 4y agoAh, I think I was unclear. My comment was not a criticism of businesses for doing what is profitable; of course that's the whole point of a business It was a criticism of the laws in place. It shouldn't be more convenient to break a law than to abide by it, that's the opposite of the point of laws. The system in place as a whole doesn't make sense if these laws are not prohibitive or even truly punitive and if it is still profitable to break them after lobbying and then paying the fee for breaking them