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If that's your reasoning, then you don't understand what money is. It's a proxy for other things. Saying you're doing something with "an eye on money rather tha
by mhb 4y ago
If that's your reasoning, then you don't understand what money is. It's a proxy for other things. Saying you're doing something with "an eye on money rather than safety" is meaningless. Substitute whatever else the money could have bought. E.g., doing something with "an eye on apartment building safety rather than aviation safety". Then you can have a discussion.
- mcv 4y agoDo airlines invest their profits into apartment safety?
- mhb 4y agoOf course not, silly. The airline's owners do.
- mcv 4y agoReally? Apartment safety rather than stock options or yachts? I've got to say I'm a bit skeptical.
- mhb 4y agoMaybe you're getting lost in the details, then. This is what markets do. They facilitate complex tradeoffs between scarce resources. More aviation safety means less of something else. You imagine that the something else is something you don't care about or think doesn't matter - like executive compensation. Well, you're like everyone else - we all think we should be running the country.