My country (NZ) is pretty bloody capitalist (just look at the state of our waterways lol) but according to WorkSafe, companies are required to take measures to protect workers including scheduling work for cooler parts of the day/year.
We haven’t had a proper deadly heat wave yet though so it’s hard to say for sure how effective our regulations will be. We’re generally terribly prepared for the heat waves that are likely going to kill a fuckload of old people and farm slaves out central and up north in the coming decades.
I agree that there exists degrees of egregiousness in the implementation of capitalism, that is true. But the core problem with that ideology stays the same: it puts profits before people, in the end, invariably. And if it ever is to take measure to protect people, those have to be fought for continuously and will suffer relentless aggression from a system that simply is simply not intent in abiding any impedance to its cashflow.
Because capitalism.
That and all safety regulations are written in blood.
People are already dying and states like Texas are walking back regulations. They do not care.
No argument here. There is rarely any regard for anything beyond profit, and no further thought than the quarterly gains.
They are.
My country (NZ) is pretty bloody capitalist (just look at the state of our waterways lol) but according to WorkSafe, companies are required to take measures to protect workers including scheduling work for cooler parts of the day/year.
We haven’t had a proper deadly heat wave yet though so it’s hard to say for sure how effective our regulations will be. We’re generally terribly prepared for the heat waves that are likely going to kill a fuckload of old people and farm slaves out central and up north in the coming decades.
I agree that there exists degrees of egregiousness in the implementation of capitalism, that is true. But the core problem with that ideology stays the same: it puts profits before people, in the end, invariably. And if it ever is to take measure to protect people, those have to be fought for continuously and will suffer relentless aggression from a system that simply is simply not intent in abiding any impedance to its cashflow.