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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)5/21/2010 9:44:02 am PDT

re: #969 reine.de.tout

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

Well, Iossarian does have somewhat of a point. Capitalists, for example, did run the Lowell mills with little safety precautions, even though they knew it causes death and dismemberment. Likewise, BP proceeded— as I understand it, and please correct me if I’m wrong— with an unsafe plan even though they knew it was risky. They didn’t deliberately blow it up, but they deliberately gambled with probabilities in a way that did directly lead to it blowing up. In addition, capitalists have often murdered labor organizers— and not just in the past, but recently, like Santiago Rafael Cruz.