Albert Einstein once said of the private sector, “Industry Barriers to Implementing Safer Designs are not Technical in Nature but truly commercial.” What he meant was that the private sector’s only concern was centered upon profitability and not your safety. That is why our world faces multiple challenges each day, such as the following….
1. Buses carrying children have NO Safety Belts (keep the cost of buses down?)
2. Medicine often is sold a year or two to the public while the agencies that approve them have not yet approved them.
3. EV Vehicles are selling like hot cakes in some sectors, yet the safety of their batteries is still in question.
4. Condo towers that hold 300 separate units often have only 50 parking spaces???
5. Cargo and passenger ships that carry hundreds of passengers only have limited life jackets and security boats. (like the Titanic of old).
6. Medicines that may accomplish what they were made for show side effects that could help others suffering from other ailments, yet they are not thoroughly investigated, resulting in injury and death over time due to side effects.
7. Housing Starts and Various other Builds are often made using acceptable but NOT Superior Materials. If you compare the prices of these items sold to you, you would expect the use of superior materials, being used right?
8. The cell phone has become an essential item to own and use, but just how long have the private and public authorities spent investigating the effects of this technology upon the user’s brain, eyes and nervous system?
Products are tested and sold by the millions, only to cause death and injury. They are recalled only after so many members of the public have been affected negatively. (Death and Destruction equation).
Our private and public sectors continue to build infrastructure, roads, and provide services, all with good intent but centred wholly on a set benefit. For the private sector, it is all about profiting financially. The public sector centers its efforts on achieving public approval long-term and before an election cycle. Emotionally, financially, institutional and political approval all add up to one thing…profit in some form or another for those who supposedly serve our needs,s be it private or public.
Safety costs more folks. Putting seat belts into buses that carry our future generations makes sense, but the private firms that make these vehicles assure the public that all is safe until an accident proves the opposite. In North America, Commercial Interests have always trumped the public’s safety. That is because our economic, financial, and Political Systems all pivot on the corporate dime.
What will it take for the public to wake up and smell the roses? Statistics are available to prove just how dangerous many products are. Investigate them and then act, using your outrage and mistrust towards the corporate elite in a collectively judicial manner. Sue the pants off of them.
Steven Kaszab
Bradford, Ontario
