[ArrogantBustard]

There IS something wrong with packing 3500 women and young kids into a totally unsafe structure and working them until the building collapses on top of them - from both a moral perspective (clearly) and also a capitalistic one (such an event obviously doesn’t make the business owner any money).

Are you sure it doesn't make any money? If the operations in the building produced enough revenue to exceed all costs (including construction) then the owners were making money on it.

[Zajko]

Taking into account the fact that the business owner is now in custody, facing a long jail sentence, and the upcoming compensation claims from 1000+ families, on top of the loss of the building, the revocation of his licence to operate any form of commerce, the confiscation of his assets and the fact that after the publicity surrounding this case, no international company would touch any business connected with him with a barge-pole, at any time in the future, in any case - then yes, I’m pretty sure he didn’t come out of this affair ‘in front.’

My point was a more general one really, though: ensuring that the premises you provide for your staff are basically structurally sound and not liable to collapse on top of them makes both business and moral sense.