Economics and law

[Charles Brown <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The original sentence that got me off and running was the following from
Charles Brown:

"There might, in general, in socialism be more focus on some safety issues
when the decision would not depend upon how the safer engineering impacted
an individual corporation's bottomline."

Now, based upon Chris Doss' explanation of Soviet manufacturing, does not
the experience of Soviet manufacturing weigh against Charles' hypothesis?
Would not the Soviet experience suggest an emphasis not on safety under
socialism, but an emphasis on job security, which had the necessary tradeoff
of lowering the relative importance of safety?

^^^^^

I don't think that you have made an argument that the tendency to some gaps
in safety due to some comment by Chris Doss on some laziness in some workers
that he has been told about amounts to demonstrating that such instances
created some overall less safety than in the capitalist process. I bet
Waistline can tell us some interesting stories about Monday made cars in the
Detroit area; don't buy cars that were made on Friday or something, or
workers pissed off throwing monkey wrenches into the whatever. Lack of job
security or job satisfaction harms safety, contra your suggestion above.

You certainly haven't proven based on Chris' anecdotes he heard from
somebody , that Soviet products in general were less safe than U.S. products
as you sort of imply above.

Soviet transportation accidents probably did not cause as high a percentage
of morbidity and early mortality as car accidents alone here.

C