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• null000 8y ago
  What bothers me in the context of regulation is how it seems like regulations as a group are frequently called out as "bad and unnecessary", but when it comes to specifics (i.e. specific unnecessary regulations or proposing targeted reforms) it's either crickets, or, in the case of some of the recent regulatory rollbacks, the ideas lie somewhere between "pants-on-head stupid" and "disastrous" [1][2]. Likewise, when people do call out stupid-sounding regulations, it's pretty common to find genuinely good reasoning behind them [3]. I guess I'd be a bit happier if I'd seen anything productive come out of the antiregulatory push in the past decade - instead it seems like it's mostly being used as an intellectual Trojan horse to increase the power of corporations and give them the freedom to pollute indiscriminately. [1] - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-s-epa-rolls-back-obama-era-coal-ash-regulations-n892586 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-s-epa-rolls-back-... [2] - https://www.cnet.com/news/net-neutrality-is-now-really-officially-dead-open-internet-congress-now-what/ https://www.cnet.com/news/net-neutrality-is-now-really-offic... [3] - https://www.marketplace.org/2018/02/02/business/uncertain-hour/country-has-lot-crimes-theyre-all-there-reason-right https://www.marketplace.org/2018/02/02/business/uncertain-ho...