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Explosions are very bad for business not only is your valuable plant destroyed but you can't make fertilizer until you build a new one. Existing and potential e
by spikels 14y ago
Explosions are very bad for business not only is your valuable plant destroyed but you can't make fertilizer until you build a new one. Existing and potential employees would demand higher wages and/or increased safety measures after an accident. Neither the free free nor a regulatory body can reliably prevent all accidents. Probably has more to do with how the interested parties value life and property.
- kalleboo 14y agoThat's a great theory, but real life has shown time and time again that businesses don't always act in their own long-term interests and individuals aren't rational actors. And people aren't satisfied when the "cost of business" to reach the end-goal of having poor businesses weeded out is people's lives.
- ck2 14y agoExcept they work on the idea "oh that will never happen", ala BP oil rig explosions. They refused to build a blast wall and congress defunded inspections so the last one was in the 90s so there was never any enforcement.