[governance] Industrial Progress, revisited…

[Louis Pouzin (well)]

On Saturday 18 May 2013 05:18 PM, John Curran wrote:

> A interesting article from Seth Godin:
> http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2013/05/its-thomas-midgeley-day.html
> (Although I expect that idea that business can do rather bad things in the
> name of innovation in not new to this mailing list...)
>
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Indeed, this topic is hardly new on this list. Still it is far from being
stale or irrelevant. Business keeps producing disasters years after the
origin has been identified and published. E.g. asbestos, oil, banks,
agriculture, toxic waste, infected blood, drugs (e.g. Servier in France),
and dozens more. What institution other than government could stop or limit
these abuses ?

Yes, governments also can produce disasters, specially when they are under
business dominance. E.g. banks, IP lobbies, guns, food, defense, you name
it.

Louis
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