Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "Plainly Difficult"
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@ArtCurator2020 <---"Over and over again, Capitalism shows that it values financial profit over human life." More like on rare and highly newsworthy occasions, owing to the twin facts that business people are human beings who nearly always want to be good (part of which is adhering to regulations), and that human beings—capitalists and non-capitalists alike—are occasionally bad.
And don't forget it was the workers who messed up in this instance as well. Shall we say that "Over and over again, workers show that they value sloppiness over human life"?
It is very illogical to adduce an extremely rare collapse to assert that "capitalism always plays the short game." If that were true, building collapses be very common. They would be so common that making a documentary about a partial building collapse 54 years after it happened would be ridiculous, and it certainly wouldn't achieve a million views after six months.
You ignore things like the fact that profit-making companies make the airplanes which, even after decades in service, people board in their millions every day, with scarcely the slightest worry. Short game, indeed!
Actually, under our free enterprise system (and thanks also to sensible regulation) products and services of all types have become immeasurably safer, as well as more plentiful. Under what I assume is your favoured alternative, socialism, people inevitably remain poor or return to poverty, which is hardly conducive to a high degree of safety. (The real aim of socialism, it turns out, isn't to banish poverty. In fact we see an entrenchment of poverty in the absence of free enterprise. Socialism's real aim, since its foundation is envy, is to destroy the well-off...while paradoxically and hypocritically heaping privilege and luxury on the nomenklatura.)
We owe it to ourselves and others to stick to things which we know something about and have thought through, instead of indulging in cheap sanctimony. (We also Shouldn't use initial Capital Letters for Emphasis.)
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