On Jan 28, 2010, at 8:47 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
If Mr. Mage and the other on this list who complain that c/b
analysis cannot be done even theoretically and/or cannot be done in
reality, then I don't see you can rationally criticize Ford if Ford
did not engage in a c/b analysis and relied upon its compliance
with the rules and regulations.<
If the Ford didn't violate the rules and regulations, that indicates
that those rules and regulations were wrong. If Ford truly decided
that profit-seeking involved taking too many risks with others' lives,
that suggests that profit-seeking capitalism has to go.
The "rules and regulations" are minimum standards, not ceilings. Ford
knew that the difference between a $1999.99 list price and a $2008.99
list price for an exploding car was an unknown number of lives, and
its "marketing" geniuses decided that its benefits outweighed its
customers' costs. But couldn't they have saved more than $9 (and a
few customers' lives as well) if they had just eliminated the
cigarette-lighter and ashtray?
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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