At least he died doing it and not someone he employed.
Slacking this hard on safety for a submarine engineering company should not be tolerated in our rapidly advancing industrial society.
39 to beam up.
When was the last time an investor handed an additional $10 million check for 0% to a startup to improve and test their safety systems before launching? Instead their usual mandate is "launch yesterday or die". Which is okay for a SaaS platform or grocery delivery app, but not a deep sea vessel.
Today's version of capitalism is every bit responsible for tragedies like this. While the CEO is directly at fault for certain things, the system is equally at fault for raising and educating a CEO (and huge numbers of post-2000s CEOs) to be like that.
Hypothetical users of the SaaS platform or grocery delivery app who find out later that their personal information wasn't handled with the appropriate safeguards might disagree with that one.
> Today's version of capitalism is every bit responsible for tragedies like this
Correct.
There’s a lot of sleight of hand with confounding governments and financial systems, however.
You can move fast and innovate in life-critical systems so long as you prioritize the engineering and testing.
This event reads like nature going "no, seriously, you monkeys aren't anywhere nearly as clever as you think you are".