A massive manhunt and siege in West Texas now?

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18. Actually, the lack of regulation

Industrial accidents are most directly related to a lack of regulation. You can trace this back to the early days of the railroad industry where there was a significantly high accident and injury rate until the feds stepped in and started the heavily regulation of the industry. Probably the golden standard for safety regulation is the HIGHLY regulated industry of commercial passenger aircraft. We've gotten to the point where virtually every accident these days can be traced to some attempt or another to simplify/circumvent/relax a regulation of some sort or another.

Accidents happen in dictatorial governmental structures because there often is NO real regulatory environment, much as is often pursued by "pure" captialists. Capitalism shares a similar flaw with dictator/single party systems such as the USSR and China. Texas being a shining example where they brag about avoiding federal regulations.

Which is the point that many of you are working so hard to miss about the OP. You're searching for the imperfections in the metaphor, and avoiding the intended point about capitalistic regulatory structures (or lack thereof).