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Nihil

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5. As you said ...
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 04:41 AM
Jul 2012

> In business, the first place to "cut corners" is in "non-value added activities"
> like training and regulatory compliance. There is no saintliness that gets
> the nuclear companies beyond this temptation.

That was the ultimately the same problem with Bhopal (and many other high-fatality
catastrophes): cut the corners until you come to a crashing halt.

Like a variation of the Peter Principle, the only people that get promoted
high enough to make a difference are those who will not make a difference
but simply continue the corruption of "profit uber alles".

"We have met the enemy and he is us."

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