I LOVE REGULATION. I LOVE THE PEACE OF MIND KNOWING THAT A RESTAURANT IS SAFE TO EAT AND A PRODUCT WONT KILL ME. I WANT MORE REGULATION. I DONT WANT CORPORATIONS TO BREATHE WITHOUT GOVERNMENT PERMISSION.
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Yes and no really. WE need a lot of regulations, but we need to lose a lot because we got regulation bloat. The problem is they likely will strip away regluations we need if given the chance. But there are a lot of places where we need to lose regulations. Like the reason the housing market is
rediculously overpriced is old, stupid, regulations choaking out where and how housing can be build and torn down limiting housing options. Then there is a lot of transport ristrtions, and .... yah the list just goes on. 200+ years of stacking restrictions on restrictions has made so much red tape
But the restrictions keeping us safe and keeping things from destroying the planet, and stuff like that.... how to sort them out and stream line them with out losing anything, even adding new things........ thats a big oof >.<
Even in the Holy book of mythology of the Christians in the book Ecclesiasticus it says
A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.
That is why regulations are paramount in a capitalistic system to keep the merchants Honest.
I’m a conservative and agree. Regulations are not all the same and while some are wasteful bureaucratic tape, there are many legitimate applications of necessary regulation.
Reduced regulation for the sake of profits should never come at the expense of the safety of the American people.
Red hat numbskulls in my state trying to do away with annual vehicle inspections. 😬
I’ve been to other states where some cars are held together with chewing gum and duct tape, bald tires and no brakes. I want the regulations!
Exactly. If a person has a problem they better be really specific and have a good reason as to why it’s bad. Most corporations just hate regulation by default because it means it’s harder for them to ignore us when they hurt us
I’m willing to listen to criticism for any and each regulation. Not all of them are serving a valid purpose. But anybody saying “we have to get rid of regulations, it’s hurting business” is saying business needs to need able to do bad stuff to be profitable. I’m not buying that.
Because a govt that regulates everything corporations do is a govt that must de facto regulate everything it’s citizens do in relation to their interactions with corporations in order to regulate those corporations
Depends on the government. Ideally the government is the people. Good or bad, you're never really going to have no government. Either way, it's the government that regulates corporations. There's nothing else that can.
Conservative lawmakers try to make it sound as if it's to inconvenience them... of course, they're really acting in the interests of owners who think the cost of regulations are just too much for them.
And no, it doesn't work to say to just take your business elsewhere, because without regulations they'll make sure you can't take your business anywhere else.
Even deeper than that. A free market requires that parties are engaging freely. That requires information. How can I possibly know that someone isn’t polluting without regulation? How can I possibly know that I have enough information to make a good choice?
Exactly and that also assumes other companies are good. What really happens when you take your business elsewhere is that you find they’re also hurting us in different ways. Also I don’t want to spend 30hrs a week looking into a random company and their history just to buy bread
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Considering all the CFRs in the US are pretty much because some company decided to do something dumb as fuck that either endangered their employees, customers or neighbors, hard yes. There are a lot of CFRs. Was 138k pages in 2000.
Exactly. If corporations took just 5 seconds to think about how their actions negatively affect people then we wouldn’t need for regulation. However corporations don’t take the time to think or don’t care how it hurts us because they’ll save an extra penny
I think it’s mostly the don’t care. Out of sight, out of mind. Get big enough and people are just numbers on a spreadsheet.
Don’t forget, with the radium girls, the companies using radium knew how dangerous it was and they didn’t change a thing. Hell, it was still marketed as healthy.
It’s beautiful what regulations can do. It makes it harder for companies to behind gibberish. I love when I can understand what kind of contract I’m getting into because they’re using standardized definitions
I believe in strong health/envrionment/safety regulations but we really don't need some cranks sitting in a local council denying low income housing cause they don't like it's vibes or preventing people from adding a granny flat because it might add one car trip or two per day.
Nah for real. My most hated PragerU video has to be that de-regulation video of this Italian with a diabetic cookie company to try and gain sympathy and the couple of regulations he was talking about would prevent food contamination. It symbolized everything wrong with it.
It's never the regulation that's properly out of date or was a misstep by some bureaucrat, we know there's got to be a few accumulated over time. But it's never those they want to change or get rid of, it's always the "don't put uranium in the food" regulations.
It was especially sinister to me because the guy was a diabetic who owned a company that made sugar free cookies, for diabetics. He basically admitted he was alright with poisoning people like him, except more vulnerable and not rich, just to save 10,000$ or whatever. They're evil.
BUT AYN RAND BELIEVED THAT BUSINESS LEADERS ARE THE HEIGHT OF RATIONAL SELF-INTEREST AND WOULD INNATELY UNDERSTAND THAT PRODUCTS THAT KILL PEOPLE ARE IRRATIONAL AND BAD FOR CAPITALISM
I'd like more smart regulation that considers all the important things like safety, environment, cost, integrity, but doesn't put progress in a strait jacket
To do that, there would need to be meaningful conversations. To many pundits and lobbies scream bloody murder when regulations are mentioned to shut down those conversations.
It's why most OSHA rules are written in blood. Nothing can be regulated until it kills someone.
Remember, corporations would, and will, kill you if it's profitable. Health insurance companies are a perfect example of this. So yes, keep the regulations. Keep the goddam parasites restrained
Well, what if I actually don't want my iPhone* to use the same charger as The Poors. Maybe if they don't want botulism in their food they should eat at an expensive restaurant.**
*Disclaimer: I wouldn't own an iPhone if you paid me.
**Also has botulism, but its clients can afford the health bills.
I LOVE REGULATION. I LOVE GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT OF FOOD AND DRUG SAFETY. I LOVE THE FDA AND USDA. DON'T LET CORPORATIONS DO ANYTHING AGAINST THE INTEREST OF HEALTH AND SAFETY. DEREGULATION MEANS THAT CORPORATIONS CAN VALUE PROFIT OVER YOUR SAFETY. REGULATION IS GOOD.
I had to read an excerpt ofThe Jungle in English class, and learned about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in History class. It baffles me that anyone could know about how horribly unsafe and unsanitary industries used to be and want to return to that.
My real quibble with the anti-regulation guys is that not enough of them get into their homemade submarines. Put your ass where your mouth is, billionaires.
Corporations have proved over and over that they will do the right thing for humans/the planet unless they are forced to. I can count on one hand the number of companies that do good things unprompted.
I want just enough regulations to keep the consumer safe, and the workers safe, but I also want few enough for a lil guy to start their own place without getting blocked at every turn.
The problem is that for every regulation written in blood there’s several more written by people who ran out of actual safety concerns and wrote more to justify their jobs. The latter are why states like New York can’t build any housing, they call it Byzantine for a reason.
There is a convention to have about the effectiveness of a particular regulation but for the most part regulations protect us more than the lead to stagnation. I just don’t trust anyone who is against regulations as a whole.
I don’t think any sane person is against them as a concept, but anyone who’s encountered them in practice in a highly regulated state should be pretty polarized against them.
It’s the classic freedom vs security story. You can’t quantify joy or freedom, but you can quantify death.
People always say “any sane person wouldn’t be against them in concept” but then they end up being against them in concept because theyll have an excuse for why any regulation is bad
The most maddening thing about having conservatives as family and friends is they will complain til blue in the face about "overregulation" and "government overreach" and then turn around and complain about things that are a direct result of deregulation and weak government.
It’s one of the reasons that a Canadian boycott of American products was so easily mobilized. We were already concerned. Airlines, too. We don’t trust that “profit above all else, including human lives, while taxpayers fund their own demise” is what ANY of the great thinkers had in mind.
It is NOT fun living in a world where you gamble on whether or not there's a fuckton of bug spray in your lucky charms because it's cheaper than recalling it to just let the weak test it out
Business needs to realize regulations are there for them as well. Someone who wants to produce a safe product should not have to compete with greedy mofo comfortable if a few people die after buying his dangerous but cheaper product.
Anyone's body, really. It's your first and forever home, and you are entitled to renovate, decorate, rent out part, add or decline a potential roommate, or whatever else makes it YOUR home.
Ever since the 🍊💩 got in again, I've been worried about food. Every time we get groceries, I wonder, "Will this make me sick? Will I have to go to the ER? Will I die?" I hate not having regulations! Food, water, medicine, medical equipment, vehicles, air, soil, etc. all need regulations.
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But the restrictions keeping us safe and keeping things from destroying the planet, and stuff like that.... how to sort them out and stream line them with out losing anything, even adding new things........ thats a big oof >.<
we need MORE restrictions on
A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.
That is why regulations are paramount in a capitalistic system to keep the merchants Honest.
Reduced regulation for the sake of profits should never come at the expense of the safety of the American people.
I’ve been to other states where some cars are held together with chewing gum and duct tape, bald tires and no brakes. I want the regulations!
Don’t ever tell me you are going to get rid of regulations. Tell me which ones and why they were created.
This ties into this as well, as scientific research and regulation are intertwined.
Gulags
Laogai
Concentration camps
Auschwitz
Etc
Because a govt that regulates everything corporations do is a govt that must de facto regulate everything it’s citizens do in relation to their interactions with corporations in order to regulate those corporations
Regulations shouldn't be about making sure that you can find a parking space for free downtown, though...
Conservative lawmakers try to make it sound as if it's to inconvenience them... of course, they're really acting in the interests of owners who think the cost of regulations are just too much for them.
I say running a safe business is preferable.
N.B. regulation is fine when it suits them
Don’t forget, with the radium girls, the companies using radium knew how dangerous it was and they didn’t change a thing. Hell, it was still marketed as healthy.
In my field, when one bank says APR, it means the same thing at another bank.
1. There is an infinite or very large number of uninformed consumers who continue to buy the product regardless of consequences.
2. The business leader does not care if their customers die.
Coincidentally, his explains the Red Hats buying Trump's BS quite well.
It's why most OSHA rules are written in blood. Nothing can be regulated until it kills someone.
Its so nice to be able to drink the water.
*Disclaimer: I wouldn't own an iPhone if you paid me.
**Also has botulism, but its clients can afford the health bills.
The fine balance makes me wanna scream.
It’s the classic freedom vs security story. You can’t quantify joy or freedom, but you can quantify death.
Or if competition willing to poison an entire lake instead of paying for proper disposal of waste.
Regulations set reasonable rules so competition is quality not who gets away with harming the most people, externalizing true cost.