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by AstralStorm 1222 days ago
The key is capitalism, which always good for short term profit even at the expense of dooming everyone.

Do you think any of the institutional or otherwise detached investors will pay for any of the safeties? Lose money or sleep?

The companies will rather circumvent or ignore the regulations, outsource the toxicity, diffuse it over the entire world. When caught, they're just slapped on the wrist, if at all.

Even in EU, cases like VW systematically breaking ecological regs on cars, undetermined someone killing tons of fish in Oder river... Creative bookkeeping and monitors being underfunded and understaffed is rampant. That where they exist at all.

Nobody wants to seriously touch it or the whole facade falls apart. The things you mentioned are fig leaves. Minor steps ahead at best.