> You can either meticulously plan your factory so that every worker always has something productive to do and pay for expensive safety equipment that also slow

> You can either meticulously plan your factory so that every worker always has something productive to do and pay for expensive safety equipment that also slows down the machines, OR you can just pack your factory with enough workers and make them work overtime A true capitalist probably wouldn't pick either side of this false dichotomy. There's a balance to things because they are forced to live in the real world. And there's no such thing in the world as making everything perfectly safe (not just in a factory setting, but everywhere in life). Here's the comment I responded to: "If you only fine for failure to abate, then there's no reason to be proactive about safety." I'm pointing out - 'actually, even someone interested only in money should still find an equilibrium with safety'