Does it?
I work in maintenance and have for a few companies. The prevailing interest has become "run it until it dies." Equipment is run well past due maintenance cycles and the accountants allowed to run businesses kill maintenance cycles and look back after 3 months to validate it must not have been necessary. 3 years later, equipment is breaking down, everything is covered in dirt, sludge, etc as all production side end of shift maintenance has been replaced with 24/7 production cycles. The people who built the place retired and everyone is divested from personal ownership of any part of the system. A long way of saying you can't pay people to care about the state of their workplace and you can't quantify it for accountants to comprehend.
Everyone hates their place of work, hates the equipment, is in a perpetual state of depression where a breakdown is an excuse to do anything other than beat a piece of failing equipment into the semblance of functioning….
The world is run by vampires so disconnected from anything of practical import that they don't understand the impact of their policies on their eventual capacity to enjoy the fruits of an industrial society. Atlas will eventually shrug.
These are the signs of it.
In this particular case, the railroad eliminated the position of electronics technicians who were responsible for servicing and monitoring the automated network of IR cameras along rail lines built to catch this very type of failure. One such box signalled the bearing was on fire 20 miles up from the point of derailment.
Normal maintenance intervals should have caught it. A response to the alert should have prevented the maintenance failure from progressing to an incident.
The response to this will be government regulation placing another check in the box for signalmen who are already just box checkers overworked, understaffed, and with failing equipment all around them and no institutional comprehension of maintenance.
This will happen again with greater frequency. You can call it intentional - but it is, in my estimation, a combination of apathy and stupidity. The boards are not going to see any negative consequences from this and it is not in their nature to have compassion for human tragedy.
Things will only improve if these boards begin to change amd/or these companies implode and are replaced by people/institutions that can properly account for the quality of their industrial infrastructure.