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I find this comparison dead on arrival. Full stop. UL, a private company, can only exist because they charge manufacturers of electronics for their certificat
by horsawlarway 7y ago
I find this comparison dead on arrival. Full stop.
UL, a private company, can only exist because they charge manufacturers of electronics for their certification.
No one is manufacturing the air we breathe (at least not yet...) so there is no revenue source for this kind of testing outside of public funding.
Your whole comment is a classic example of attempting to apply market forces to a problem that has no market.
I'll be blunt - Capitalism is a nifty trick for situations where there's a market and low barrier to entry. IT IS NOT A SILVER BULLET.
- ibeckermayer 7y agoAir safety certification could be seen as a market, with the buyers being localities (towns, cities, city-states, counties, etc). I don’t think the issue is so much “markets vs govt” as it is accountability vs impunity. The issue with single-payer, nationalized air protection is that there’s a single point of failure and there’s no reasonable means of individual dissent (pulling funding, voting with one’s feet, etc). Of course this line of thinking leads to some very politically incorrect conclusions.