People living near the Ohio train derailment will have to watch their health for years [vox.com]

Insatiable corporate greed becomes moral/ethical corruption, which loves government-passed deregulation thus [dangerously] lowered safety standards.

The world also saw this most horrifically demonstrated recently with so many earthquake-shaken Turkish buildings collapsing on their human inhabitants. Through shoddy and regulation-breaking construction that didn't follow government code, countless lives were gratuitously lost due to big-business greed.

Meantime, the more that corporations make, all the more they want — nay, need — to make next quarterly. It's never enough. Maximizing profits at the expense of those with so much less, or nothing, will likely always be a significant part of the nature of the big business beast.

Still, there must be an imminent point at which the status quo can/will end up hurting big business’s own monetary interests. One can imagine that a healthy, strong and large consumer base — and not just very wealthy consumers — are needed.

Or could it be that the unlimited-profit objective/nature is somehow irresistible? It brings to mind the allegorical fox stung by the instinct-abiding scorpion while ferrying it across the river, leaving both to drown. ...

Corporate CEOs will shrug their shoulders and defensively say their job is to protect shareholders’ bottom-line interests. The shareholders, meanwhile, shrug their shoulders while defensively stating that they just collect the dividends and that the CEOs are the ones to make the moral and/or ethical decisions.