Er, in the real world "negative outcomes" are increasingly rare.
On what basis do you make this statement? We could argue endlessly about the validity of my statement & I accept that this is a subjective matter of opinion.
No, it does not undermine my post with respect to the
inability to "prove" a negative, you simply cannot show evidence for a non-outcome. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence". This is the basis of
Hume's Problem ie "The black Swan" as made famous by Nassim Taleb's book of the same name.
As for the world being run by accountants, give me a break. Airlines (and all public companies) are run by a management team that answers to shareholders.
Agreed, my lack of precision. By "accountants" I didn't mean the literal accountants, but the more generic term for financiers & shareholders who simply view the world through the prism of a balance sheet and an investment to generate returns.