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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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