Profit Before People: When Corporations Knew It Was Dangerous and Sold It Anyway
Kindle Edition or EPUB + Converted PDF نویسندگان: Adam Clermont
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فرمت: Kindle Edition or EPUB + Converted PDF ناشر: Book Publishing Wizards تاریخ انتشار نسخه الکترونیکی : January 6, 2026
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شابک: 9781970853285 لینک: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F46MWXMB
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Profit Before People began for me with a phone call in the middle of the night. A young woman burned by Everclear grain alcohol. A warning label that used to say "contents may explode"—quietly removed. A fifty-cent safety device that could have prevented the fireball, never installed. That moment pulled me back into a question I've spent years circling as a lawyer and researcher: what happens inside corporations when they know a product can hurt people, and sell it anyway?What follows is not an abstract critique of "corporate greed." It is a close examination of a pattern that repeats itself across decades and industries. From thalidomide to the Dalkon Shield. From the Ford Pinto to the GM ignition switch. From asbestos and lead paint to Everclear, forever chemicals, and defective software. The names change. The technology evolves. The logic stays the same.Again and again, internal testing reveals danger. Engineers raise concerns. Fixes are proposed, and rejected as too expensive, too disruptive, too slow. Marketing continues. Warnings are softened or removed. When injuries and deaths become impossible to ignore, lawyers step in. Victims are challenged. Science is contested. Time is weaponized. Accountability, if it comes at all, arrives years late, after the damage is done.I followed the paper trail left behind: court records, internal documents released through discovery, regulatory filings, and sworn testimony corporations never expected the public to read. Alongside that trail are the people who refused to look away. Plaintiffs' attorneys risking everything on contingency, whistleblowers sacrificing careers, journalists digging for years, and regulators who occasionally found the resolve to act.These are not stories about cartoon villains. They are about ordinary professionals operating inside powerful institutions, shaped by incentives, silos, and pressure to keep products moving and profits intact. Harm does not usually come from malice. It comes from systems that make delay easier than change and denial safer than truth.At its core, this is an examination of how decisions that kill people get made, and how they are hidden in plain sight. It asks an uncomfortable question that keeps repeating across industries and generations: when the cost of fixing a known danger is measured in dollars, and the cost of ignoring it is measured in human lives, who gets to decide which matters more?
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