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Because a few ships a year are expendable for the global economy. Not worth it to try to make every ship less sinkable - e.g. it may decrease the number of ann
by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Because a few ships a year are expendable for the global economy.
Not worth it to try to make every ship less sinkable - e.g. it may decrease the number of annual losses by 50% at the cost of making an average ship 10% more expensive - obviously a bad trade. Some ships will still sink, because of stuff like human errors.
- random314 4y agoYou know that ships have crew in it?
- Idiot_in_Vain 4y agoYeah, and? How much do you think the humankind is willing to pay to save a human live - a million dollars, a billion, a trillion?
- guiriduro 4y agoA lot more than it does at the moment, certainly. That's no bad thing either, even if insurance premiums would go up (and construction quality would then improve to compensate and bring them somewhat back down, and finally fewer incidents would result in loss of life.)
- sporkland 4y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life
- rendall 4y agoThe crew probably has a good idea of the risks
- wolverine876 4y agoI'm not sure they do - are they oceanographers? These are very rare events; very few crewmembers have experienced such waves. Also, even if they do, it doesn't stop them from being exploited.
- rendall 4y agoIf you have an idea of the risks involved, then certainly people who are embedded in sea-going culture do as well.
- marmetio 4y agoOccupational safety doesn't happen just because you think it should. Recognizing when financial incentives are insufficient is important to designing a realistic solution.
- ekanes 4y agoThis trade-off is everywhere. As a society, we choose to have some people die due to speeding instead of making speed limits 15mph, which would absolutely make roads safer. Human life just doesn't trump all else - we factor in other things.
- lamontcg 4y agoAnd a company would go broke trying to secure itself against every conceivably IT security threat, so IT security aims to keep breaches out of the headlines rather than eliminate them completely. Your own skeletal system is a trade-off of different factors.