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Because eventually all other values besides profit for 5 companies will be sacrificed if you go down that road. Why do consumers need the government to enforce
by free_rms 6y ago
Because eventually all other values besides profit for 5 companies will be sacrificed if you go down that road.
Why do consumers need the government to enforce child labor laws? FDA regulation? OSHA? These lessons are written in blood.
Yes, you might need to work on the regulation in order to get it just right but "who cares, whatever" is not acceptable unless we want to live in an effectively-communist world with a few vertically-integrated corporations setting all the rules.
- throwaway2048 6y agoIt would be great if every conversation about regulation on HN wasn't dominated by posts re-litigating if the concept of regulations should exist in the first place.
- cordellwren 6y agoAgree with everything you said except for the fact that you seem to be using "communist" to mean "authoritarian/fascist."