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by WalterBright 1927 days ago
Good luck designing and operating a complex, dangerous system with purely altruistic, utterly selfless people.
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> 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.
I think one of the test pilots was brought up on charges for lying to the FAA. There may be others. I haven't followed that aspect that closely.

All who owned stock in the company had that cut in half. Lots more lost their bonuses. The CEO lost his job.