Critical Infrastructure Failures

The freezer compressor for the Safeway across the street failed resulting in the loss of $100,000 worth of food, no small hit to a modest grocery store that runs on razor thin margins. I wonder if they have reconsidered having a more costly redundant system? Earlier this year there was a spate of undersea cable failures in the Middle East, enough and some in strange enough circumstances to lead to speculation that it wasn't simply chance. In the not too distant past undersea earthquakes and landslides lead to multiple cable failures in the Far East. All of these cable failures significantly degraded Internet performance, especially for the time it took to sort out the new routes and stabilize everything. What's the point of all this? Most business executives and government leaders have no understanding of the structure or potential failure modes of the Internet that we all increasingly depend on, just like the manager of the Safeway, I'm betting had any no idea of how the freezer infrastructure was designed until the proverbial shit hit the fan. Even for network experts it's easy to design in the use of "redundant" networks for reliability only to learn under duress that all the providers share a common fiber cable. Should we be more worried about any of this? Is a more serious network failure due to not paying enough attention to risk as likely as a financial meltdown due to the inadequate understanding of the cascade started by sub-prime mortgage securities? Probably.