re: #272 sagehen

This is where regulations and personal injury lawyers come in.

If we pass laws that make polluting very expensive, or there’s lawsuits that make exploding gastanks really expensive, or make payments to miners when mines fall on their heads really expensive — then operating in a way that benefits the greater good (or at least doesn’t harm us) will be the way to maximize profits.

The problem is the lawsuits claiming that…say…vaccines cause autism. Whatever soulless, profit-hungry motive one claims to dislike about corporations, the same is usually doubly true for the plaintiff’s bar. In many cases, their cure is worse than the disease.