No, this man was just petulant that after decades of not following employment/environmental/fire regulations, he was finally being held to them...and his answer was to burn everything to the ground out of petulance.
Dude, if I sell contaminated goods to person B, person B can sign a release that they won't sue me... but they can't promise that person C or government D won't.
Even if they indemnify me, it doesn't necessarily mean I'm off the hook.
If he was happy to drop his prices to dump his product to force out competitors, than he should have been happy to accept the additional costs of complying with workplace, fire safety, and environmental regulations everyone else has to comply with. Oh wait...he wasn'.
Or he could have raised his prices. But then, he would have actually had to compete on product quality, and it's clear the only thing he really had going for him was that shapers were used to his product and it was cheap.
Since he's closed up, the market has undergone substantial innovation and improvement, including
Literally nothing stopped him from pursuing partnerships to develop and produce more environmentally friendly products, but that's a lot less fun than simply being yet another whiny, entitled boomer.
I mean exactly what I said, not the words you're cramming in my mouth.
The letter he wrote acknowledges the regulations are important and that the enforcement approach taken by authorities are justified.
It also makes it clear that he has tried to comply, and is concerned that he had no viable path towards compliance, and potential unbounded liability if he got it wrong. And he got scared and bolted.
> but that's a lot less fun than simply being yet another whiny, entitled boomer.
Nice slur. He was actually a member of the silent generation.
It seems like you're really upset about all this, throwing around insults and "petulant" in your comments and leaving multiple incomplete sentences around.
But it really seems he did quit because of a protracted dispute with local fire and air quality district personnel that was escalated to the EPA. The threat of massive fines was looming bigger and bigger, and the letter he writes just exudes desperation that he didn't feel he could reach compliance.