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RE: How Corporations Value Human Life
I don't think there's really a way to expect companies to do anything besides coldly crunch numbers like that. And we wouldn't really want them to -- having a smart phone at an affordable price adds to human wellbeing and is in turn saving lives in some abstract way.
So Apple stepping away from their cold hard calculation hurts us too.
I'd probably prefer living in small self-sustainable communities over the way the world is now. And then you naturally value the people around you. But there's just no way to have the world like it is now and then expect Apple to treat their millions of customers in a human to human way. It just kind of has to operate as a "program" to work at all.
I agree. A company isn't some Grinch sitting in his/her office. It's a collection of individuals who have jobs to improve efficiency in small pieces. Some of those pieces are reducing costs, increasing revenue, etc....so anything that involves reducing the liability will usually be done by someone at a large company.