[Thor]

How often do we find out in the aftermath of these disasters that business cozied up to politicians to deregulate or go easy on polluters and in the end we all get screwed because ultimately its good business sense to spend money on deregulation, oversight and line the pockets of parties that will support these things under the guise of "free market capitalism."

Worldwide in every capitalist country, hell any country, political contributions and corruption is so rampant and acknowledged that its common knowledge, yet collectively the voters in each nation seem helpless to do anything about it.

Accidents will happen, it could genuinely be that this instance they did follow the rules, but maybe oversight, inspection and tougher regulations will make this even less of a possibility in the future. The problem is we have lost true will from the people to enact policies and fund agencies dedicated to stopping such tragedies, and its really a pressing issue as the power of democracy has been usurped as always happens in nation states where rich and powerful use their immense influence to benefit themselves at usually the cost to everyone else.

We seem powerless to deal with this, its very frustrating, its even worse in the US with the powers given to corporate entities to go carte blanche in funding political campaigns, we need to fix this if we are ever to truly have corporate responsibility and real oversight since ethics and social responsibility are not big drivers in the business world.