• Lem Jukes@lemm.ee
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    16 hours ago

    “Oh yessum I’ll absolutely deliberately lower my profits for the safety of my customer, you bet!” People who think business has any other motivating incentive than profit are the dumbest kind of bootlicker and it makes me so sad.

    It’s not even a referee, it’s three shareholders in a zebra print trench coat.

    • taladar@sh.itjust.works
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      9 hours ago

      Self-regulation can work for safety but only if the measures needed to make things safer are cheap and pretty much don’t require quality control (e.g. do not install a slippery type of floor in front of your butcher counter) and the consequences are severe even without regulation (bad press, significantly fewer customers, medical bills to pay for the customer who does slip,…).