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Protections for consumers that apparently comes at a much higher price point, which some consumers may not wish to pay. How is that protection for them?
by bsbechtel 10y ago
Protections for consumers that apparently comes at a much higher price point, which some consumers may not wish to pay. How is that protection for them?
- toomuchtodo 10y agoAs a consumer, you don't get to opt out of regulation "because you want to". You then create a race to the bottom, negatively affecting your fellow citizens. You don't want to pay for safe airlines? Non-rancid meat? Agriculture runoff regulation? Too bad.
- twoodfin 10y agoYour comment isn't an argument that the level of regulation (and subsequent regulatory capture) for the taxi industry in most U.S. cities is appropriate and on the whole beneficial. It's a much less controversial argument that some regulation is for the common good. Sure. Isn't it obvious that some level of regulation is too costly for consumers to justify the benefits they receive? To me, that's the charitable reading of bsbechtel's comment.
- toomuchtodo 10y ago> Isn't it obvious that some level of regulation is too costly for consumers to justify the benefits they receive? To me, that's the charitable reading of bsbechtel's comment. I don't dispute this. If you want the regulation changed, vote on it. If you simply ignore it because you think it doesn't apply to you, I hope to see you go out of business.
- JWLong 10y agoftfy > As a consumer, in $my_economic_model, you don't get to opt out of regulation "because you want to".
- toomuchtodo 10y agoJust calling it how it is in countries with a real working government.
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