It's not really "we" that do this, though. It's "them." I don't have the power (read: money) and neither do you to make the dangerous, greedy decisions these CEOs and investors make that cause horrible disasters so they can have more, more, more. So leave "we" out of this.
@@jake12466 Yeah, sorry. My autocorrect seems to add an apostrophe to any word ending in an "s" lately. Now do you have anything of substance to add to the conversation, or are you just the language police?
Because they created laws that deem you a terrorist if you try to do anything. Now please go and do the American thing and argue about race/trans people. Tonight at 6 we'll tell you why you could die in the next 30 seconds and whether or not you should be scared.
@@programmer1840 That's a load of bullshit. CAPITALISTS make greedy decisions with zero regard for the safety, comfort, sanity, and well-being of the people who suffer the consequences when something like this happens, and those people are NOT the Capitalist class. They're the working class. And how do you expect regulations to get passed? These greedy Capitalist owners literally made Congress take the rail worker's union ability to strike away. Now you think they're going to pass regulations? Congress is bought and paid for by the Corporate Owner Class. The whole system is in their hands. If you think we're going to legislate our way out of disasters like this happening all the time, you're fooling yourself.
same thing is happening to my state's rail network, it's being turned from a state-run service to a state-owned for-profit organisation that entities can invest in on the stock market. They want to make it turn a profit but they had to sink $50 million from the state budget to bring the predicted profit margin to 1% :(
Ever tried to get an amtrak ticket? i got one a few years ago in lieu of a bus ticket, and the train was 4 hours late. they said because they get kicked back in the line behind any train carrying anything other than people because money.
PSR has been around for a long time it’s been around since the early 2000s it hasn’t caused problems on Canadian railroads or American railroads. In 2017, Norfolk Southern refused to listen to a shareholder request to increase safety standards and what many people neglect to remember is how many derailments Norfolk Southern had before the big one it had nothing to do with PSR
:43 the rail companies also made sure to spread the lie that the strike was all about sick days and not about all these other safety issues that would require radical changes to fix.
Just like at 3 Mile Island; there will be no accountability at the protected levels of the corporate world. The little guy is always the fall guy. The blatant lies & cover-ups are disgusting and infuriating.
Lol, how many people were killed or injured at Three Mile Island? How many homes lost? That generating station was still safely running until its decommission in 2019.
We can thank Republicans for enshrining maximizing shareholder value as the only goal of corporations in the 80s, now it's the basis for the entire US system, we allocate profits to the extremely wealthy while we ignore unaccounted costs which enables the profit maximization. We're robbing the future of clean air, water and access to resources in general so that a tiny cadre of already unimaginably wealthy people keep vacuuming up the vast majority of the gains made off the backs of actual working people. This is what happens when capitalism captures the system that was meant to regulate and oversee it (congress). We can change this but only when people realize that they have the power to demand change.
@@dcxplant Republicans are the primary driver, deregulation has been a mainstay of the GOP platform for decades, did Democrats play a part? Absolutely, we all did, but to even insinuate that it's equal on both sides of the aisle is not even remotely correct. In the past the GOP was the party of conservation, now the only thing they're conserving is power and greed there's zero chance a GOP president would do anything to reign in greed like this or move for publicly funded elections (which would begin to address so much that's wrong) but Democrats might and that's what matters.
This is a pretty shit explanation. Borderline just misinformation. There is no check you can do to see if a bearing has failed short of just pulling off the axle and having a look. Which is why railroads use a hotbox detector. When a bearing fails, it gets hot, when it’s hot it sets off the hotbox detector, which tells the engineer to stop the train. It’s a common problem that happens all the time. 99.9999% of the time it doesn’t cause a crash. So the real question is why didn’t it this time.
Makes me sick how little we respect our country and it's environment.
It's not really "we" that do this, though. It's "them." I don't have the power (read: money) and neither do you to make the dangerous, greedy decisions these CEOs and investors make that cause horrible disasters so they can have more, more, more. So leave "we" out of this.
He look on the bright side: investors are enjoying record quarterly returns!
("its" not "it's")
@@jake12466 Yeah, sorry. My autocorrect seems to add an apostrophe to any word ending in an "s" lately.
Now do you have anything of substance to add to the conversation, or are you just the language police?
Most importantly, it's sickening how little human beings matter.
How long until the labor class finally has enough and rises up against the capital class?
Wont happen in the US, no one care until it affects them directly. Years of brainwashing have taken hold and people feel powerless.
This isn't really about classes. Everyone makes greed-based decisions, that's why we need regulations.
Because they created laws that deem you a terrorist if you try to do anything. Now please go and do the American thing and argue about race/trans people.
Tonight at 6 we'll tell you why you could die in the next 30 seconds and whether or not you should be scared.
Oh, soon, I'd hope. There's a few open secrets - once confirmed, s will hit the fan.
@@programmer1840 That's a load of bullshit. CAPITALISTS make greedy decisions with zero regard for the safety, comfort, sanity, and well-being of the people who suffer the consequences when something like this happens, and those people are NOT the Capitalist class. They're the working class.
And how do you expect regulations to get passed? These greedy Capitalist owners literally made Congress take the rail worker's union ability to strike away. Now you think they're going to pass regulations? Congress is bought and paid for by the Corporate Owner Class. The whole system is in their hands. If you think we're going to legislate our way out of disasters like this happening all the time, you're fooling yourself.
same thing is happening to my state's rail network, it's being turned from a state-run service to a state-owned for-profit organisation that entities can invest in on the stock market. They want to make it turn a profit but they had to sink $50 million from the state budget to bring the predicted profit margin to 1% :(
what state is that? sounds like good case study material
@@larsfinlay7325 its not in the us
@@evilbob05 so is it New South Wales?
@@larsfinlay7325 correct!
@@evilbob05 bloody libs will never let up will they?
Ah yes ... land of the free (for corporations that is ... ).
Socialism 4 rich. Poverty 4 the rest.
Rope + Tree for all who is responsible.
That's why none of the corpos came to town. They'd die. Too scared to see the effects irl
Ever tried to get an amtrak ticket? i got one a few years ago in lieu of a bus ticket, and the train was 4 hours late. they said because they get kicked back in the line behind any train carrying anything other than people because money.
The railroad is an extensive network of corruption that has existed since it's beginning.
When Congress stops a strike it should be time for America to realize it doesn’t matter left or right, corruption is our biggest enemy.
PSR has been around for a long time it’s been around since the early 2000s it hasn’t caused problems on Canadian railroads or American railroads. In 2017, Norfolk Southern refused to listen to a shareholder request to increase safety standards and what many people neglect to remember is how many derailments Norfolk Southern had before the big one it had nothing to do with PSR
:43 the rail companies also made sure to spread the lie that the strike was all about sick days and not about all these other safety issues that would require radical changes to fix.
Thanks for making this, disgusting seeing their response. It'll only get worse.
Just like at 3 Mile Island; there will be no accountability at the protected levels of the corporate world. The little guy is always the fall guy. The blatant lies & cover-ups are disgusting and infuriating.
Lol, how many people were killed or injured at Three Mile Island? How many homes lost? That generating station was still safely running until its decommission in 2019.
We can thank Republicans for enshrining maximizing shareholder value as the only goal of corporations in the 80s, now it's the basis for the entire US system, we allocate profits to the extremely wealthy while we ignore unaccounted costs which enables the profit maximization. We're robbing the future of clean air, water and access to resources in general so that a tiny cadre of already unimaginably wealthy people keep vacuuming up the vast majority of the gains made off the backs of actual working people. This is what happens when capitalism captures the system that was meant to regulate and oversee it (congress). We can change this but only when people realize that they have the power to demand change.
It's not just Republicans. If you think Democrats are labor friendly you better open your eyes and look around.
@@dcxplant Republicans are the primary driver, deregulation has been a mainstay of the GOP platform for decades, did Democrats play a part? Absolutely, we all did, but to even insinuate that it's equal on both sides of the aisle is not even remotely correct. In the past the GOP was the party of conservation, now the only thing they're conserving is power and greed there's zero chance a GOP president would do anything to reign in greed like this or move for publicly funded elections (which would begin to address so much that's wrong) but Democrats might and that's what matters.
Someone call RJ Corman cause they are benefiting from this horrible practice.
Here from john Oliver's long train video
We need to end the railroad unions before this happens again.
You're joking, right? I'm invoking Poe's Law.
This is a pretty shit explanation. Borderline just misinformation.
There is no check you can do to see if a bearing has failed short of just pulling off the axle and having a look.
Which is why railroads use a hotbox detector. When a bearing fails, it gets hot, when it’s hot it sets off the hotbox detector, which tells the engineer to stop the train.
It’s a common problem that happens all the time. 99.9999% of the time it doesn’t cause a crash. So the real question is why didn’t it this time.
Great vid. Super informative. Thanks
Ah yes ... land of the free (for corporations that is ... ).