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See, that the thing, yes companies need to be kept in check when it come to cutting corners on safety and such. However, regulations for the sake of regulations are far too often used in regulatory capture operations with for-profit motives, or as ways enact political attack operations against...

I think regulations should be efficient and easy to understand, so they are less open to both misunderstanding and less prone to being abused for frivolous litigation by bad actors who want to undertake regulatory capture. If two rules can be condensed into one for the same effect on overall...

Well, given what was going on in the Gilded Age is part of why, is it surprising that the Left had a point, even if the Socialists co-opted it, like they do with so many other things? The abuses of the Gilded Age robber barons are what led to socialism seeming so appealing, when the other side...

What paper was it written for and how was is socialist? Because everything Sinclair pointed out was true, and his work lead to a lot of the basic food safety laws we have now, as well as the laws regarding child labor and working hours. Just because someone was pro-safe working conditions...

Deep Water Horrizon failed because of greedy corner cutting on the cement job on the well, a known issue, which is part of why there are regs about well pressure testing for concrete jobs in the oil industry. And 'The Jungle' wasn't commie propagada, it was an expose on the very real abuses of...

Counter-point: Deep Water Horizon, Exxon Valdez, the chemical fires on various rivers, Upton Sinclar's 'The Jungle', 'company towns', and heavy metal poisoning from mine run-off.

Look, OSHA is one of the few agencies that justifies why we have a federal gov at all. You can never engineer a foolproof system, because nature will always create a more clever or desperate fool. OSHA is a our best defense against that rule of nature.