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In reply to the discussion: "She stood up on her seat, raised her fists in the air and yelled, 'Airbags!'” [View all]fujiyama
(15,185 posts)What right wingers just don't get is that corporations (aside from being greedy, but that's a given) get lazy and complacent and without a swift kick in the ass by government, they simply will not change their ways. They get used to a particular way of making money and stop innovating (that's what happened to automakers in the '60s with big cars and the late '90s with SUVs).
But according to the right's logic, mass casualties are a cost that's worth bearing due to their blind ideological worship of the free market. Now maybe the markets and competition would eventually force automakers to make more fuel efficient and safer cars, but how long and why should consumers have to wait when the technology exists and can be implemented?
I hear this bitching all the time - by other engineers no less.