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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. A few simplified examples fro
by 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.