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	by chefkoch 1927 days ago
	From what i know about this accident, the profit in this case was not to loose face for the higher ups running the plant.

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Good luck designing and operating a complex, dangerous system with purely altruistic, utterly selfless people.

> Good luck designing and operating a complex, dangerous system with purely altruistic, utterly selfless people.

I know you're beeing sarcastic, but you just have to run it by the book. No need to be a saint.

What I'm saying is a proper organization takes advantage of peoples' base motives, instead of trying to defy them.

Free markets work so well for that reason.

I don't think this works in any savety relevant industry or there are not many proper organizations. Most regulations are a response to accidents.

Lawsuits and loss of reputation has halved the value of Boeing from the 737MAX mistakes.

Yet, no one personally responsible has suffered in the slightest.

Did “profit” just get redefined?

I know nobody likes the wiseass but

Profit = to gain an advantage from something: profit from sth/doing sth I profited enormously from working with her.