3 ms·
I cannot thank the free market enough for lead free gas, lead free paint, airbags, seat belts, removal of chlorofluorocarbons, etc.
by nautilius 5y ago
I cannot thank the free market enough for lead free gas, lead free paint, airbags, seat belts, removal of chlorofluorocarbons, etc.
- Hamuko 5y agoAirbags are a funny example to bring up in a topic of unification, because airbags are not unified. The Americans and the Europeans have tried to unify airbag designs so that they don't need different designs on different continents, but apparently they've yet to agree on it. The basic gist was that Europeans want smaller/less forceful airbags, whereas Americans want bigger/more forceful airbags, and this stems from Europeans assuming the driver wearing a seatbelt and Americans assuming an unbelted driver.
- nautilius 5y agoThe topic is regulation, not monoculture or planned economy. I am not arguing that everything has to be the same everywhere, I am arguing that the market is the wrong mechanism to rely on as the sole source of desirable change.
- amelius 5y agonetwork neutrality ...