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xAI notched up EPA violations for running a mountain of gas turbines illegally

Tesla collects a variety of regulatory violations like they're paid for it.

SpaceX...OSHA, FAA, EPA

Boring company...

etc.



Yeah the fines are designed to provide incentive to operate like you value your worker’s and others’ humanity even if you don’t have the humanity to really do it. It’s useful because our business economy mostly incentivizes businesses to treat people like fungible economic units of potential profit and loss. If the business is run by someone more interested in stroking their ego rather than optimizing profit and loss, the whole thing breaks down. Yet another example of the real work not working like an economics thought experiment.




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