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>> If someone falls off a ladder while painting your house, they can sue you and take your house. This rings true to me. Where I live, on one side of the stre
by georgeecollins 5y ago
>> If someone falls off a ladder while painting your house, they can sue you and take your house.
This rings true to me. Where I live, on one side of the street half the houses have been taken over by house painters who sued the former owners. The other half of the street the houses go unpainted because people fear the laborers will take advantage of them.
I wish we could go back to a world where property owners had power and political influence.
- josephcsible 5y agoHar har. It's not common, sure, but it does really happen, and it's devastating and life-destroying to the owners and their entire families when it does.
- georgeecollins 5y agoThe same can be said for being struck by lightning. Yet people don’t say the problem of the world is that you can be struck lightning. It’s obvious propaganda.
- josephcsible 5y agoBut we do have safety measures against being struck by lightning (e.g., bringing people indoors during storms).
- georgeecollins 5y agoI don't think there are many protections in either case. I don't know what your experience is, but when people show up to work on my house they don't seem to do so without a lot of protections or regulations and I don't feel very worried about it. If your experience is different, please elaborate. Larger point: The original post is by an old guy talking about how great things were in the old days. Even Adam Smith made fun of how it is human nature for people to think things are going to hell. Economists do think over-regulation is a problem. But what they think is a problem is regulation that protect incumbents large and small (farm subsidies, accreditation). Getting sued by your house painter is silly.
- awb 5y ago> it does really happen When has this ever happened?