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#not only did they have the opportunity to learn from the incident over Windsor Ontario (in which no one died but all could’ve)
suswous
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If watching dozens, if not hundreds, of videos about plane crashes have taught me anything, it’s that flying isn’t dangerous, it’s capitalism that’s dangerous
#disclaimer that flying is incredibly safe
#and mile for mile driving is more dangerous
#(and many airlines or plane manufacturers do have culture of safety)
#it’d probably be better/more accurate to say profit incentives or smthn like that than ‘capitalism’
#as similar things/scenarios obviously happen/happened in non-capitalist countries where the incentives were similar
#but in capitalist societies those profit incentives are largely shaped by capitalism.
#/the system of capitalism we have
#the problem (under the capitalist system of incentives we have) when profit is more important/more considered than safety
#in other systems it may be more that say efficiency or productivity is valued higher
#but it’s still the same idea that there are other incentives
#I’m just thinking about the DC-10 cargo doors thing
#like
#not only did they have the opportunity to learn from the incident over Windsor Ontario (in which no one died but all could’ve)
#they fucking found out during testing
#they knew this was a problem
#and they did barely anything to fix it
#and so you got that Turkish airlines flight
#if there’s not a culture of safety—you’re just waiting for disaster
#I think part of Boeing’s problem may have come with their acquisition of Mcdonnel Douglass
#where MD’s lack of culture safety spread to Boeing
#and that’s how you got Max
#and it’s just the manufacturers
#if the profit motives are right it can cause airlines to skimp on maintenance which—if it causes a crash
#will often severely hurt or kill the airline completely on top of the potential for human impact
#it’s not just incentives for profit but it’s also incentives for short time thinking
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