re: #969 reine.de.tout

It’s been my experience that capitalists don’t deliberately blow up their very expensive equipment and trained people.

Oh, for crying out loud. Capitalists do stupid, short-term shit that causes physical or financial harm all the time. Is it deliberate, as in “I intend to push this button to blow up the rig now” kind of deliberate? Of course not. It’s just stupid, as in “I’ll cut corners on the plugging of this well and save a million dollars. Or “I’ll sell this credit default swap that I really don’t understand because then I will make my number for the quarter”. Or “I’ll speed up to make that yellow light”.

But people are people, and they do short-sighted things every day. Every single day.