AllAnusMorissette
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Tyler Horvath
Mar 26, 2026 5:21 PM
AllAnusMorissette
198911
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Tyler Horvath
Makerofthingsmasherofstuff
"Our car can drive on its own!".... He said lying
Shareholders: "Let's give him a raise"
Tolocamp
Thing is. Americans always regulate after the fact. For example the Tesla dumpster cannot drive on most public streets in europe, because european regulators say. "Hey, those sharp edges ? We forbid cars have 'em. Cuts pedestrians up like sushi in accidents."
American regulations works different. "Sure, build it that way, but as soon as the tenth pedestrian was decapitated or cut in half by those sharp edges you gotta do something."
cadesama
Yeah, but small businesses are also evil because they are fully unregulated in many cases and then cry about crazy things like health inspections.
Frobizzle
The point of a business is not to make money. It is to provide a good or service worthwhile to the community, and money is the reward for that output. Corporations instead insist that not only is money the primary factor, but it is the only factor. This culture needs to change drastically.
ReallyFastSloth
I will never understand someone whose sole purpose in life is to get more money.
kurvarVillain
Thojira
when you can make hundreds of million and just pay tens of millions SOMETIMES, this is what they feel like the choice is ... but the human cost behind it is thousands if not millions of lives
mham7611
Reminds me of young Louis CK
Hope he is a better person
Not that Louis isn't but
You know what I mean
friendsofsandwiches
invite ya up for some...jacking?
66gent
I've always loved how the right frames regulations as either springing forth from a vacuum or devised by "evil dems who hate capitalism" instead of stemming directly from some fucked up shit a corporation tried to get away with.
Illithidbane
Every regulation was written in blood.
Keitterman
There's that, but there's also a calculation for corporation size and their ability to squash smaller competition through regulation.
Basically, larger corporations can satisfy regulations with less impact to their total margin than their competitors. this advantage can then be used to further negatively impact their competition, or prevent new competition from occurring.
Obviously this only applies if small business represents a large enough market share to matter to the larger ones.
newsguycraigevans
That can't be true. We're always told that capitalism loves competition. That the free market will always bring prices down because of healthy competition. That... that wasn't a lie... right?
friendsofsandwiches
Every thing with corporate entities are a numbers game.
If they can get away with shitty construction, with only paying a modicum of fines or whatever, that is cheaper than fixing it properly, they'll do it.
msfeatherbottom
As leadership likes to say, “It was a business decision “, as they gut humanity (literally heard this said by an L10 in an internal “fireside chat” about the social and environmental ethics of a certain data center design when I worked at you know where)
GravyEducation
And they only ever want exponentially more money. I always compare it to acceleration vs velocity. Corps are traveling down the road at 60mph. If during the next quarter, they're not at least doing 61? They think they're at a full stop. You're still doing 60 my dude
EmailFail
I always felt like that is a failure of lawmakers. Corporations that make that decision should be charged with a crime and the penalty to the company would be massive as a punishment
SeanBeanJovi
Isthe4thtimethecharm
Don't forget it it takes 10 years for the problem to come to the surface. They can put money back and make more than the fines will cost them off of the interest.
TheDoctorCrankenstein
*The push towards U.S. Car-centric infrastructure has entered the chat*
relsky
"Enterprise Risk Management Actuary." That's a real job that exists. Their whole job is to determine the financial risk to the corporation in specific scenarios, and then recommend an action based on the number crunching.
Most famous example is the "Ford Pinto Memo." They calculated that fixing the pinto would be 3 times more expensive than letting people die and paying the families off.
Almost every corporation is utterly reprehensible. It's terrifying how much power they have over us.
friendsofsandwiches
ERMA would not appreciate her name being associated this way
Omnimorph2112
I am Jack's total lack of surprise.
EMHPicardo
thewiggins
is it bad the the thing that really threw me off was the fact it was making pavement screeching noises on dirt?
TheBlueMuppet
"YA GOTTA HAND IT TO THE GERMANS! THEY MAKE GREAT CARS!" - Professor Flamonde as they drive away in that very truck
chuckaholic
Cyber trucks exploding kill passengers at 17 times the rate that Pintos did. https://www.motorbiscuit.com/cybertruck-fire-explosion-ford-pinto/
alcamar
Who left that landmine laying around?
Wonkable
Just ask Ralph Nader, he'll tell you. If he was still active, he'd also tell you the cyber truck has 10x the fatality rate at the Pinto, which was "unsafe at any speed"
11Weasel11
Wasn't it the Corvair?
SlammedCarsAreRuinedCars
Yes
cardinal29
Fuck Ralph Nader, his ego game put George Bush in the White House. He should have stuck to consumer advocacy.
friendsofsandwiches
Sr or Jr?
imjustabill495
Jr