Classic car future

str12-340 said
This is key to the way our economy works. If you can externalize the consequences of your product - that is get someone else to pay for them - then you can make a lot of money. The tobacco industry and the petroleum industry are examples. Heavy industry did it and does it if they can get away with it. My Dad was a chemical engineer for Bethlehem Steel for 40 years. When he started (1956), all the effluent went up the stacks and into the air or was just dumped into the Chesapeake Bay. Guess who is paying for all that - families like mine (Dad died of cancer when he was 68) and those who breathed that air and depended on that water, and the taxpayers left with the bill for clean-up...

Yep…. Most people don’t take into consideration the accumulation of medical costs or loss to the workforce that hard labor or unhealthy environments cause .
I was thinking about that today wwhile someone was telling me about their father laboring so hard he was crippled by his mid 50s. WE paid for his longterm medical and inability to work .
In the long run large companies may be paying less for safe working environments? I mean a pallet jack is way less expensive than medical bills for the employee that used to move those crates by hand .