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minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·2 days agoWhen you privatize important service like freight trains and let corporations maintain them, they’re going to value profit over anything else. So why spend money to avoid a crash? If you fix anything before a crash you pay for it, out of your profits. If you wait for a toxic spill, insurance pays for the spill and the government pays to repair that section of rail. These are going to keep happening.
minus-squareModern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoEven more so, if your competitors, assuming you have any, gamble and don’t spend on saftey, you can’t either or you will lose. So it isn’t the gest that wins, it’s just the luckiest.
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up16·2 days agoPrivatize the profits, socialize the losses!
When you privatize important service like freight trains and let corporations maintain them, they’re going to value profit over anything else.
So why spend money to avoid a crash?
If you fix anything before a crash you pay for it, out of your profits.
If you wait for a toxic spill, insurance pays for the spill and the government pays to repair that section of rail.
These are going to keep happening.
Even more so, if your competitors, assuming you have any, gamble and don’t spend on saftey, you can’t either or you will lose. So it isn’t the gest that wins, it’s just the luckiest.
Privatize the profits, socialize the losses!