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Re:Competition Is Dying, and Taking Capitalism with It? by dv_dt on Thursday November 29, 2018 @01:19AM (#18558464)
They've become more stringent over time because there are more flights now, and had they not become more stringent, then we would have daily crashes and fewer people would be willing to fly.
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Re:Competition Is Dying, and Taking Capitalism with It? by ekianjo on Thursday November 29, 2018 @02:39AM (#18558706)
> and had they not become more stringent, then we would have daily crashes and fewer people would be willing to fly.

Not sure you can make such a claim. There are other industries where standards and safety practices improve over time without the need of strong regulatory leadership. Case in point: occupational injuries have been decreasing over time across the board:

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/osh_11082018.pdf

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Re:Competition Is Dying, and Taking Capitalism with It? by nradov on Thursday November 29, 2018 @02:55AM (#18558755)
Occupational injuries have been decreasing over time largely due to deindustrialization. There just aren't as many people working in factories and mines any more.
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Re:Competition Is Dying, and Taking Capitalism with It? by maxxxxx on Thursday November 29, 2018 @09:20AM (#18560282)
And the people working in factories and mines are protected by regulation. The owners didn't improve safety voluntarily.
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Re:Competition Is Dying, and Taking Capitalism with It? by JoeAltmaier on Thursday November 29, 2018 @09:21AM (#18560288)
Which are routinely, famously flaunted by both management and labor in mining and manufacturing to increase output and thereby pay/profit.

I'd favor mechanization over 'rational human' for sure.

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Re:Competition Is Dying, and Taking Capitalism with It? by majewsky on Thursday November 29, 2018 @06:28AM (#18559464)
Also, OSHA was enacted in 1970.
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Re:Competition Is Dying, and Taking Capitalism with It? by dv_dt on Thursday November 29, 2018 @12:53PM (#18562126)
Aviation has always been a mix of government regulation and industry self-interest that has worked better than all-regulation or no-regulation alone.

https://www.slideserve.com/wauna/we-need-to-continuously-imp...

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Re:Competition Is Dying, and Taking Capitalism with It? by maxxxxx on Thursday November 29, 2018 @09:18AM (#18560273)
There are a ton of regulations for dangerous workplaces. Without them we would still see people get killed by machines in factories or poisoned by vapors.
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Re:Competition Is Dying, and Taking Capitalism with It? by JoeAltmaier on Thursday November 29, 2018 @09:27AM (#18560329)
Except, in the west anyway, almost nobody is working in factories any more.
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Re:Competition Is Dying, and Taking Capitalism with It? by maxxxxx on Thursday November 29, 2018 @10:01AM (#18560621)
There are a lot of people working in factories, construction, mines, agriculture and others.
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Re:Competition Is Dying, and Taking Capitalism with It? by JoeAltmaier on Thursday November 29, 2018 @10:04AM (#18560654)
Yes, but as a total of America its groiwng vanishingly smaller. Automation.
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