“The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now only counting costs to businesses when considering regulation on key pollutants, internal documents show, rather than considering human lives saved by such caps.”
“The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now only counting costs to businesses when considering regulation on key pollutants, internal documents show, rather than considering human lives saved by such caps.”
Don’t Lives Lost also impose costs and lost revenue on businesses? Even from a business standpoint, killing a bunch of people is bad for business.
Those costs can be passed onto governments. Much like salary subsidies in the form of food stamps.
The corporate world is doing a PE style takeover of government, and non-workers are simply an externality.
True, but that’s less than including the value of lives directly.
Capitalism simply assumes unlimited resources. Labor is a resource.