competitive. Other times, plant managers ignore important employee-safety measures
just to save money. And companies are even known to trade off consumer safety in the
interest of competition. Perhaps the paradigmatic case involved the Ford Pinto, where
Ford management rejected an inexpensive retrofit that would have saved hundreds of
lives in rear-end collisions, solely in order to shave a few dollars off the cars sticker
price, thereby enhancing the cars competitiveness.
Competition can even bring about large-scale social change that some consider
undesirable. For instance, the emergence of large, efficient factory farms has resulted in
the virtual disappearance of family farming in the U.S. And it isnt clear that the factory
farms always improve farming practices, in the case of the tomato, the old homegrown
kind are far superior in taste and texture to the tough, underripe version that has been
genetically engineered for machine picking in huge quantity.
In conclusion, competition frequently motivates changes that are beneficial in
many ways. But competition is a double-edged sword that can also result in-inferior or
unsafe products and dangerous working conditions for employees. Moreover, large
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