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I could picture an alternate reality where the cost of pedestrian injury is factored into the cost of doing business. People gathering below hoping to be hit by
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y ago
I could picture an alternate reality where the cost of pedestrian injury is factored into the cost of doing business. People gathering below hoping to be hit by falling billionaire debris in hope of a payday.
- steveBK123 1y agoAn interesting thought experiment, but given the height of the building… it will be the victims families collecting any payday.
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- ramses0 1y agoGot you, 'fam! https://metro.co.uk/2017/02/17/man-stands-under-loose-sign-for-two-days-hoping-itll-fall-on-him-so-he-can-sue-6455419/ https://metro.co.uk/2017/02/17/man-stands-under-loose-sign-f...
- ks2048 1y agoReminds me of São Paulo's famous Copan building. It's tiles were falling off, so they covered it in a big net and haven't been able to fix it for 10+ years.
- cyanydeez 1y agoExternalities are the bane of capitalism. We wouldnt have capitalism if it had to be accountable.
- m0llusk 1y agoThat is sloppy thinking. If you have private property and the ability to profit from labor then you have Capitalism. The need to regulate architectural liabilities goes back as far as history. The current thinking that any regulation impedes Capitalism is both radical and new.
- cyanydeez 1y agoOk, bit you wpuld not have profit if you had to pay for labors heapthcare Sloppy is not knowing what externalities are.
- edoceo 1y agoOne can still have profit and pay for healthcare. Dozens of examples exist.
- cyanydeez 1y agoThen explain why the largest capitalist government can't do that.
- StackRanker3000 1y agoIt could, it just doesn’t want to. Or at least the inertia and obstacles of gaining enough political support for doing it, paired with the reluctance of the powerful entities that gain from the existing system, prevents it from happening. But there is nothing that makes it fundamentally incompatible with still allowing private enterprise and profit
- cyanydeez 1y agoFundamentally, not paying for externalities is why it "succeeds". It's foundational. As I stated at the top.
- Jensson 1y agoCapitalism succeeds even where they do pay for externalities, so you are wrong.
- cyanydeez 1y agoreally, is that why all these brownfields were abandoned? We got billion dollar contamination everywhere that no one wants and random people suffer. It's simply a failed accounting system you have.
- blactuary 1y agoA 2 year old was killed by a piece falling from a building a few years ago. Her father wrote a heartbreaking book about it https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/once-more-we-saw-stars-jayson-greene/1135732870?ean=9780525435341 https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/once-more-we-saw-stars-jays...