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Funny how it's only when regulation is involved that it begins to pull back the curtain.

maerF0x0 6y ago
Consider that regulation makes a certain tier of solution effectively illegal. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elq2mnHTFUY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elq2mnHTFUY I know this may look a little dystopian, but solutions of this sort would be illegal in the US and then folks would have no choice but to just go without any help at all. (Save for if charity/gov't step in). Same story with housing. Part of the reason we have homeless ness (or more realistically people living in cars) is because the homes they could afford are illegal. (Hence why somehow they can afford "home" with a motor).
- techrat 6y ago
  Deregulation of telecoms. Now we have monopolies with no regulatory requirements to provide service to customers. Read: Verizon refusing to rebuild landline areas affected by severe storms. Removal of regulations for ISPs. Data caps. Throttling. Zero metering. Deep packet inspection. Data injection. Opt out (if you even can) tracking. Removal of oversight for agriculture and removal of animal welfare regulations. More contaminated products. More waste being dumped improperly. Like the argument about minimum wage. Wages aren't going to go up if they remove minimum wage as companies are already paying the least they can get away with. The "free market" simply cannot be trusted to regulate itself. The argument that this wouldn't happen in a "true free market" doesn't hold water. Nor that less regulations would make it easier for newer companies to compete: We've only seen the actual reality of such a policy. Less regulations make it easier for existing companies to fuck the consumer over. Regulations are written in blood. There is a reason they existed in the first place.
  - prostoalex 6y ago
    Whose blood was used in writing the regulations for the space program to ensure an exclusive vendor would get the contracts? https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/181469-spacex-sues-us-government-for-secretly-awarding-multi-billion-dollar-military-launch-contract-to-boeing-and-lockheed https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/181469-spacex-sues-us-go...

Consider that regulation makes a certain tier of solution effectively illegal. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elq2mnHTFUY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elq2mnHTFUY I know this may look a little dystopian, but solutions of this sort would be illegal in the US and then folks would have no choice but to just go without any help at all. (Save for if charity/gov't step in). Same story with housing. Part of the reason we have homeless ness (or more realistically people living in cars) is because the homes they could afford are illegal. (Hence why somehow they can afford "home" with a motor).

techrat 6y ago
Deregulation of telecoms. Now we have monopolies with no regulatory requirements to provide service to customers. Read: Verizon refusing to rebuild landline areas affected by severe storms. Removal of regulations for ISPs. Data caps. Throttling. Zero metering. Deep packet inspection. Data injection. Opt out (if you even can) tracking. Removal of oversight for agriculture and removal of animal welfare regulations. More contaminated products. More waste being dumped improperly. Like the argument about minimum wage. Wages aren't going to go up if they remove minimum wage as companies are already paying the least they can get away with. The "free market" simply cannot be trusted to regulate itself. The argument that this wouldn't happen in a "true free market" doesn't hold water. Nor that less regulations would make it easier for newer companies to compete: We've only seen the actual reality of such a policy. Less regulations make it easier for existing companies to fuck the consumer over. Regulations are written in blood. There is a reason they existed in the first place.
- prostoalex 6y ago
  Whose blood was used in writing the regulations for the space program to ensure an exclusive vendor would get the contracts? https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/181469-spacex-sues-us-government-for-secretly-awarding-multi-billion-dollar-military-launch-contract-to-boeing-and-lockheed https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/181469-spacex-sues-us-go...