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Yes, and it makes you wonder what other amazing things we're missing out on, but for some quirk of law or successful lobbying.
by dTal 5y ago
Yes, and it makes you wonder what other amazing things we're missing out on, but for some quirk of law or successful lobbying.
- weaksauce 5y ago> Yes, and it makes you wonder what other amazing things we're missing out on, but for some quirk of law or successful lobbying. A few simplified examples from off the top of my head: pre ww2 most employers didn't provide insurance. during ww2 healthcare was offered as a perk of the job back in the day because wage freezes caused by world war 2 inflation concerns. you can say that because of hitler that it is the way it is now and now there is a huge political donation machinery to prevent single payer health care.(downsides being that if you are rich you can get really good healthcare for less than you'd pay into a single payer system and there are millions of jobs related to the bureaucracy of being in the middle of provider and patient) china has very lax copyright/patent enforcement and as such places like shenzen's markets where you can find thousands of little electronic bits and pieces and clones are rampant with a very large maker movement. (of course there is a downside to this in that the capitalists don't get to benefit as much on whatever innovation was there originally) regulatory capture on other industries are also from that lobbying.
- andrewstuart2 5y agoI find it interesting how large the maker movement is in China despite the very lax copyright. It simply has no or net positive effect, it would seem. I know I'm oversimplifying, but I think the general argument against relaxing copyright protections, at least the most common I've heard, is precisely that.
- Yaa101 5y agoBecause they are lax on foreign copyrights and not domestic ones?
- sundarurfriend 5y agoDo you have any evidence for that claim?
- Yaa101 5y agoIt's not a claim but a rhetorical question, hence the question mark...
- sundarurfriend 5y agoA rhetorical question is a question asked to make a point, rather than get an answer.[1] A point, aka a claim here. But maybe you meant a non-rhetorical question. In which case, it would be clearer if you started it with a "Maybe" - if your intent was to genuinely ask it as a question. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zmfc7ty/articles/z7dyvk7 https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zmfc7ty/articles/z7dyv...
- ncmncm 5y agoThe downside is that whatever you can find to buy is ripped off from whoever invented it, usually neglecting rudiments of quality control.