Exactly two weeks have passed since the Dhaka garment factory complex collapsed in Bangladesh, yet bodies are still being pulled from underneath the rubble.

As of this morning, the Bangladesh army has confirmed 804 deaths. That’s over 800 human beings crushed to death under the pressure of a globalized economy that exploits the world’s most vulnerable to further enrich Fortune 500s like Walmart and Disney.

But don’t blame the multinationals, we’re told, because this is the fault of the building owner who forced workers back inside the building after a cracks were discovered in the structure.

The mostly Western multinationals that profit from deadly sweatshop labor would like nothing more than for the world to blame the building owner and move on.  That’s the reason they adopted this very system of subcontracting. It allows them to avoid liability  when hundreds of people inevitably die in factory fires and building collapses, or when dozens of workers jump to their deaths because no life is a step up from the horrific working conditions they’re forced to endure.

Two days after the collapse, my older sister pointed to a picture of ill-equipped rescue workers helping survivors slide down bed sheets and she asked me why clothing brands and major retailers weren’t aiding in the rescue effort, which they could easily afford to do. I responded with laughter, not because it was funny, but because major retailers consistently refuse to spend a dime aiding people whose lives are shattered while making their products. And they actively block any and all efforts to improve safety standards for the sweatshop workers that manufacture their products. So the thought of Walmart or H&M suddenly caring about the the people their policies kill seemed like a joke.

Aside from the body count, the worst aspect of this latest workplace disaster is that its newsworthiness has faded, making the likelihood of some level of accountability for major retailers a distant fantasy.

As Michelle Chen explains at In These Times, future factory disasters are inevitable because  multinationals remain unaccountable for their deadly policies:

While companies feign ignorance and puzzlement over “what went wrong” at Rana, they’ve already proven that they’re well aware of the root problem. They shipped their manufacturing overseas specifically to avoid protective regulations and thus keep overhead and labor costs unfathomably cheap. Conversely, corporations could reverse this vicious trade-off between rights and profits by investing heavily to improve working conditions and strengthen safety enforcement, as well as monitoring under a program like the Bangladesh safety agreement. But that would mean expending the very same resources that they’d worked so hard to hoard by contracting with the cheapest and most dangerous workplaces in the world.

So the market logic will continue as long as the cheap clothes keep flying off the rack. Whether or not the Rana incident ultimately shames multinationals to get serious about workplace safety, garment workers in Bangladesh are already wondering whether their factory will be the next disaster site.