alt Hacker News> If I own a hospital that makes infinite money and every patient that comes to it dies the economy measures this is infinite productivity. This is contrived, but really matches some of what we see in real life.
You wouldn't have any business if all, or many, of your patients die.
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metiscus • today at 12:56 AM
To be fair, in an emergency one does not usually get to choose the hospital they are taken to by the ambulance company.
The history of government regulations mostly only being made in response to people dieing seems to refute that. If what you claimed is true, those businesses killing people would have gone under, rather than continuing until there is enough public outcry to regulate it.