Companies are neither perfect nor put together as portrayed by some, nor as evil as portrayed by others. They are simply the economic units of our society needed to provide the goods and services we need. We don't want to go back to walking down the street hoping someone has something subpar in their cart, do we? A better means of achieving this goal has not yet been found. While companies obviously prefer to market safe rather than unsafe products, they feel justified in asking why they should voluntarily increase the safety of a product if the result is that sales suffer. The provision of seat belts in automobiles is a good example. The leveling effect of government action is essential to producing improvements in product safety and pollution reduction. There is no point in urging engineers to insist that their ideas on safety or pollution be adopted if the effect would be to jeopardize the well-being of their employers. If such actions result in harm to their employers, have they adequately fulfilled the ethical obligations they agreed to when they took the job? In exchange for a salary, there is an implicit obligation that an employee contributes to meeting that of the employer