Norfolk Southern:
-Helped kill a safety rule to upgrade outdated braking systems
-Fought off a shareholder initiative to mitigate risks of transporting hazardous materials
-Cut thousands of employees despite the safety risks of understaffing
Atrocious corporate greed.
In the first place, the priority of capitalism is profit above all other considerations; in the second, American corporations have legal personhood. The toxic combination of these two factors creates an extremely wealthy, powerful and psychopathic entity whose prime impulse is to increase profits.
Robert Reich
Fardels Bear