A neoliberal system caves to industries like the railroads - to companies like Norfolk Southern, to their lobbying pressure and campaign donations - so they can legally cut corners, treat their workers like serfs, use antiquated safety measures and endanger the lives of people, animals and planets. It then allows them to get away with limiting the damages they need to pay even after they've ruined people's lives. It's not just this one incident that's the problem. It's the system in which such incidents flourish and out of which such deadly consequences as those at East Palestine, Ohio, inevitably arise. Only when we repudiate the system itself - when we recognize the aberrational chapter of neoliberal, trickle down, corporatist economics for the deadly mistake it has been - will we even begin to repair this country. The executives who were so negligent here should be indicted for this. They knew what they were doing. They knew what risks they were taking. Their own workers - those people who they routinely don't listen to and whose lives they clearly care so little about - tried to tell them.