3 ms·

It'd be impossible for a dentist to go rogue if the main lobbying group for the dentists wasn't allowing any new treatments to get government approval. Also, I

• avmich 11y ago
  It'd be possible for public to mount enough pressure on government to allow for that. Given a few assumptions, of course - enough information, attentive enough government, enough energy in the society etc.
• merpnderp 11y ago
  Wouldn't the government approval issue be more of a socialist factor? Would a socialist government, who's dental representatives want to protect their slice of the public pie be more or less powerful than a capitalist leaning government who wants to limit interference in the market? For instance, is the teachers union more or less powerful than the dental lobbyists?
  • bigethan 11y ago
    >Wouldn't the government approval issue be more of a socialist factor? One uses money to manipulate the people in charge of socialist government programs. I'd bet that the dental lobbyists are stronger in their niche than the teachers union is because there's less public knowledge and interest there.
• ams6110 11y ago
  I'd argue that capitalism is what causes the entrenchment of industries that get addicted to their profits and don't care about the customers. No, this is human nature. People with power and wealth act to protect it. This is true whether they get their power and wealth because they are high-ranking politicans, party officials or bureaucrats, or whether they earned it in the private sector.