(March 31, 2011 at 12:49 pm)theVOID Wrote: No company will make safe products without regulations, right? That's bollocks. It's in the best interests of the companies to make safe products, not only will they lose customers otherwise, they can be prosecuted for negligence - You don't need some government official to go check up on them, you just need to arrest them when they do something wrong.
Compnaies will get away with what they can.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHGbrlufryw
http://motherjones.com/politics/1977/09/pinto-madness
Quote:for seven years the ford motor company sold cars in which it knew people would needlessly burn to deathAnd thats just Ford.
Capitalism is just about money, not ethical behavour, just money.
It will srew you any way it can, if its caught it will wriggle out of it any way it can.
Take the tobacco industry and its struggle to cover up the science that proved links to cancer and smoking.
Capitalism is not pure evil, but it comes close.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.