This is exactly why regulations such as professional engineering licenses were put into place. You don’t want someone with that mentality building a bridge.
Huh? Bridges stopped failing when engineers were held responsible. That’s a pretty fast change.
Holding people responsible doesn’t decrease or slow down innovation. It alters the incentives to align the innovation with public benefit. If properly caring for society is too slow for you, your part of the problem.
First one only sagged, no catastrophic failure, no deaths, no injuries.
A few more on that list were over a hundred years old. Not sure when he started holding engineers responsible.
Then you have the bridges rammed by ships, terrorism, construction accidents, a wooden suspension bridge in the middle of nowhere that had an upper limit of three and was used by seventy, etc. .
Seems as if the bridges themselves have held up fairly well.
Engineering education is designed to ensure you know better than risking lives for fun or profit.
It doesn't prevent you from trying to introduce new technology as long as risk is acceptable. Otherwise we'd still ride horse carriages (with special horses bred to be slow).
