Corporations historically justified poisoning workers by weighing them against national benefit

Evidence

Thompson framed the issue of individual risk versus national benefit in utilitarian terms: “We should look at the problem in the large, rather than be swayed by prejudice. It is often much easier to see the concrete immediate dangers than to evaluate the perhaps more important industrial advantages. We do not like to match the life of a man against the life of a Nation” (U. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1752

Categorization

• XREF: Direct parallel to the ADDENDUM on sacrifice — the institutional calculus that some individual lives are expendable for collective goods.
• CANDY: The phrase ‘we do not like to match the life of a man against the life of a Nation’ is a quotable, near-aphoristic line of corporate callousness from a century ago.