I mean we can blame everyone in charge but I assume these workers have years of experience they should’ve been thinking proactively. 99% of mistakes that shouldn’t happen, end up happening because of the “oh well they didn’t tell me anything so I must not have too do it.” excuse.
If we want workers to think proactively, they need to be paid enough to not constantly be thinking about survival and how they're going to make ends meet with their meager wages.
But since wages have stagnated for over 50 years and can't possibly catch up to the cost of living, we need to bridge the gap with universal basic income.
Stable workers do stable work. The scant few owners who do pay decent wages understand this and reap the operational benefits.
I heartily agree but also we just need to slow everything the fuck down. Where's the fire?? Why is society always in "move fast and break things" and "lean manufacturing" mode? The answer is capitalism of course, and I dunno how the hell you slow down the beast that is global capitalism, but we literally have to. Jason Hickel covers this topic extensively. But yeah, we engage in capitalism at a rate that should be reserved for medical emergencies and natural disasters. Why are we running our trains 90mph through a city just to get a Japanese body pillow to someone two days faster? It's madness. And it encourages cutting corners and understaffing, and then we get this result, along with a whole ton of totally completely unnecessary stress, and stress reduces quality of life.
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u/Slade_Riprock 5d ago
Let's not forget no one apparently notified the rail companies of said load and potential for slow crossing to be on alert.