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by Jiro 1549 days ago
Generally, if you're asking person X to spend money they don't want to spend, claiming that it's in their own best interest, it probably isn't.
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What is best interest is debatable, but we know for a fact that some people show no interested in survival of people around them - like drunk drivers.

Or like management of Grenfell tower in UK was asked to address fire safety problems, they didn't want to spend the money and about 100 people burned alive. Also the building is gone.

Or like that apartment block in US that collapsed recently.

Or like management of Bhopals fertiliser plant, that failed due to lack of maintenance and produced positions gasses that killed thousands of people, ofcourse starting woth employees of the plant. The CEO ofcourse escaped to US and US is refusing to extradite him.

In fact I don't know how to apply your advise to anything safety related, there are literally millions of examples of people saving a bit of money on safety and dying as a result and killing people around them.

Hackernews: "Externalities happen to other people, now why are my gas prices so high?!"
You could say that about all of taxes.