"Every stage of profit is shaved to the bone now in our effort to compete with a Chinese level of efficiency. But Canada doesn’t have a peasant army moving to cities to work for dimes and live in dormitories. If we did, worshipping the god of cheap — shopping at Walmart, working alone, expecting subways without paying the taxes to fund them, living a Mayor [of Toronto] [Rob] Ford way of life — would be plausible.
"Instead we clean up the muck. It’s composed of oil, human bodies and black rubble. The god of cheap accepts our offerings and rejoices."
Full article: Lac-Mégantic train crash proves engineers shouldn’t work alone.
The headline for this article in my morning (dead tree) Toronto Star was punchier: "Cheap-obsessed world is being run by a staff of one".
