@danluu I question your assumption that it's cheaper to ignore these kinds of issues. If a company screws up they do have to pay a lot of money (product recall, compensation, etc).

The point of cost comparison is the additional outlay to do things right vs paying for screwups - the problem you'd run into is screwing up constantly would quickly get very expensive.

At best you could argue current employees may not have sufficient incentive, and take short term profits at long term expense.