<story><title>Before Deadly Crashes, Boeing Pushed for Law That Undercut Oversight</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/business/boeing-737-max-crashes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ahartmetz</author><text>Adam Smith is very selectively quoted by &amp;quot;free market&amp;quot; types...</text></item><item><author>pseudolus</author><text>&amp;quot;The proposal of any new law or regulation which comes from [businessmen], ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;—Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Cause of the Wealth of Nations, vol. 1,</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NeedMoreTea</author><text>Yes, they always seem to neglect his views on corporations for some peculiar reasons.</text></comment>
<story><title>Before Deadly Crashes, Boeing Pushed for Law That Undercut Oversight</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/business/boeing-737-max-crashes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ahartmetz</author><text>Adam Smith is very selectively quoted by &amp;quot;free market&amp;quot; types...</text></item><item><author>pseudolus</author><text>&amp;quot;The proposal of any new law or regulation which comes from [businessmen], ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;—Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Cause of the Wealth of Nations, vol. 1,</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>All early thinkers are. Curse of applied myopia.</text></comment>