Topic: Policy

In many respects, corporate / government policies are not designed for their customer's / citizen's best interest, but rather their own best interests.

One example is:

Consumer health protection policies.

Rates of cancer have been increasing in a large part due to the products we consume, whether it is genetically modified oranges or your foam office chair, seafood with high heavy metal content or mobile phones.  FDA and other safety ensuring governmental organizations have created policy loopholes to allow companies to place dangerous products on the market while at the same time giving consumers a false sense of the safety of such products.  The problem is that a single product on its own might contribute little to the risk of cancer and might therefore be acceptable by FDA standards.  However, many of such products cumulatively cause higher risk.  Current policies don't seem to factor in the basket of products we consume together in determining their collective contribution to the risk of developing cancer and other diseases.  This in effect represents one such way in which corporate / government interests are protected at the expense of the interests of consumers / citizens.

Can you think of others?

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i agree.

now, disease and impurities, make our species stronger, evolution allows this. but i dont think the policies are created for that reason.  xeno is correct, most policy and regulations in place exist with the soul purpose of profit and greed...

tobacco, for example, has been used and consumed for hundreds of years.  but why, all of a sudden, in the past 50years, they cause cancer?!  here is why: tobacco is not that bad. corporations create "additives" to maxamize profits and reduce the cost of manufacturing.... the policies created by the FDA are also motivated by interest groups(cash)

I dont smoke cigarettes because i like them.  I smoke because it hides the smell of marijuana thats seeping into the hallway atm.

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"tobacco, for example, has been used and consumed for hundreds of years.  but why, all of a sudden, in the past 50years, they cause cancer?!  here is why: tobacco is not that bad. corporations create "additives" to maxamize profits and reduce the cost of manufacturing.... the policies created by the FDA are also motivated by interest groups(cash)"

Great example.

Add to it the fact that home-grown, organic tobacco is outlawed.

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Corporations exist to serve their own interests. Being customer friendly is merely a way of creating more revenue. So this is not a thing to be lamented. Goverments on the other hand...

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Another blatant example:

Airlines:  Airplanes are designed with what, 6 - 10+ doors, right?  Why, then, is only 1 (sometimes 2) of these many doors used to load and unload passengers?  The answer is that the airports don't really care about how quickly passengers are off-loaded.  They can't be bothered to even think about the customers' preference to be off-loaded AS SOON AS %^*&%-ING POSSIBLE.  They don't want to go through all the trouble of re-designing their 70+ year old system simply to make air-travel more comfortable and convenient for their 'customers', lol.  Why the !@#% would they bother?  They, being 'the system' have a 'monopoly'.

6 (edited by xeno syndicated 03-Jan-2010 14:51:29)

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And I blame the 'AIRLINES' rather than the airports for this.  They are so @#%@ing lazy and uninnovative, so happy sitting on their cash-cow way of leaching off the 'system' that they don't bother rectifying the situation in the easiest, most blatantly simple solution:  BUILD THEIR OWN #@%ing airports, god#@%it.

7 (edited by xeno syndicated 03-Jan-2010 14:59:06)

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Airports are a symbol of the ultimate, recurring folly of human civilizations: every human civilization that has ever spawned on the face of the globe has fallen due to the same premises upon which our superfluous airports are devised.  It would take an essay to explain it all. Let's just say that the very nature of our airports epitomize the utter stupidity of our current human civilization, and all human civilizations prior.  I'll start another thread if anyone is interested.

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it seems mr xeno has just returned home from holiday.  did you fly? lol tongue

I dont smoke cigarettes because i like them.  I smoke because it hides the smell of marijuana thats seeping into the hallway atm.

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Or maybe the reason behind there not being multiple areas for people to exit is:
1: They would have to redesign airports, as the airport terminals are only built to accommodate one door,
2: Security, as having multiple doors means you need additional people overseeing the movement of people through the additional doors.

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"Or maybe the reason behind there not being multiple areas for people to exit is:
1: They would have to redesign airports, as the airport terminals are only built to accommodate one door,
2: Security, as having multiple doors means you need additional people overseeing the movement of people through the additional doors."

You mean, basically, the inefficiency of the system is justification for the inefficiency of the system.  Brilliant.

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"it seems mr xeno has just returned home from holiday.  did you fly? lol tongue"

Yes.  And I pretty much despised the experience, like pretty much everyone else.

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"You mean, basically, the inefficiency of the system is justification for the inefficiency of the system.  Brilliant."

An investment like this kinda goes into the "raison d'

Only the dead have seen the end of war. - Plato

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Tell you what.

1.  How about converting the current airports into malls (not difficult as that is exactly what they pretty much already are).
2.  Airlines start making their own airports, which would basically be this: valet parking, security, and airstrips. 

There should be a dignified way for air-travel to work, and this dignified way SHOULD be the goal of all airlines / airports in the world.

As a suggestion, instead of building a multi-billion dollar mall -err airport, why not simply have customers able to drive their vehicles right up alongside the aircraft to board.

All customers could drive through security (staying in their cars during the process), and drive up and que (still in their cars) at one of the MANY pre-assigned entrances to the plane within 30 minutes before take-off.  Ground-staff could unload the customers' luggage from their cars while customers file into the aircraft to their assigned sleeper or sitting compartments (customer's choice. The sleeper compartments would simply be a horizontal bunk rather than the current useless reclining chairs and would not take up more space than the current reclining chairs either).

With the customer on-loading from their own vehicle (taxi, public bus, etc.) there would be no need for the immense, superfluous air-terminals.

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Xeno: taking aside your stupidity and ignorant ranting, your concept just simply does not work.

A) As Zarf said, having multiple points of entry/exit increases the security check points for each plane, thus increasing the cost to the airline/airport as well as the complexity of keeping everyone safe.

B) Assuming you are on an international flight, rushing off the plane will have no point as you will only have to wait in line to get through customs/border control. Therefore on an international flight the ignorant masses should take a chill pill and settle down, on domestic flights this issue is reduced in importance, as generally there is reduced post-flight security checks to pass through, however to remove these you either have to be in a small country like mine or increase the security getting on the plane, which leads to...

C) Multiple entry points being completly unrealistic in todays social enviornment, where the safety of the masses should be safe guarded through security checks before getting on the plane, which does include people checking all the useless items they seem to like to take on the plane.


That is not even to go into this moronic concept of drive up airfields.. It *may* work for small country's domestic flights where there is lesser complexity in security checks.

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15 (edited by jerlundy 19-Jan-2010 20:29:07)

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Apparently people are not all displeased.  There is definitely room for improvement, but as long as a company's profits remain the same, they won't change how they do business.  If people were too angry about the system they could boycott and drop the company's revenue....which doesn't seem to be happening.  Xeno, I have read many of your posts in the forums here, and u seem  to be a very negative person.  Prove me wrong and try posting something saying someone did a good job at something instead of how everything sucks.

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