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REGULATION IS A MUST, I mean sure let's abolish all regulation and just consider what that can do. Anyone can now prescribe meds. Your pharmacist is now a hig

by avgDev 4y ago

REGULATION IS A MUST, I mean sure let's abolish all regulation and just consider what that can do. Anyone can now prescribe meds. Your pharmacist is now a high school drop out working for minimum wage. We no longer need catalytic converters. Corporations can now dump toxic waste into drinking water. We can also dump oil into the drain instead of properly disposing of it. We can now burn our trash instead of wasting money paying for waste services. Contractors can now disregard any international building codes and get things done CHEAP! You can now buy food products with toxic crap in it. You can now be denied health coverage based on your DNA and any pre-existing conditions. If you are using a wheelchair businesses will no longer need to provide access. The list goes on and on and on.

mwint 4y ago
> international building codes Oh please let this never become a thing.
aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
Your list is hilarious because it's how business is done in all of the parts of the US that are unlike where you live.
- Melting_Harps 4y ago
  > Your list is hilarious because it's how business is done in all of the parts of the US that are unlike where you live. It's also the typical scare mongering that you see with people who seem oblivious to the fact that in the absence of these systems a rating system becomes critical and you have a myriad of people wanting to act as arbiter or intermediary to ensure QA/QC. Darkmarkets were pretty critical in seeing what this would look like, and while it was far from perfect it showed what things would look like if it were to transition out of a State based regulatory body and instead relied on Market based forces. I will grant that Markets are not perfect and cannot account for all externalities or be able to offset seemingly inevitable paradigm shifts like climate change as they tend to lag behind incumbent tech (that is often subsidized by those who supposedly are regulating them no less) but most of that was in regards to Consumer goods/services at the retail level which can be solved in an iterative process. What will likely occur and is my bigger worry is monopolization, unfortunately. But then that has already happened the most critical Industries as it is.

by avgDev 4y ago

mwint 4y ago

> international building codes Oh please let this never become a thing.

aaaaaaaaata 4y ago

Your list is hilarious because it's how business is done in all of the parts of the US that are unlike where you live.

Melting_Harps 4y ago
> Your list is hilarious because it's how business is done in all of the parts of the US that are unlike where you live. It's also the typical scare mongering that you see with people who seem oblivious to the fact that in the absence of these systems a rating system becomes critical and you have a myriad of people wanting to act as arbiter or intermediary to ensure QA/QC. Darkmarkets were pretty critical in seeing what this would look like, and while it was far from perfect it showed what things would look like if it were to transition out of a State based regulatory body and instead relied on Market based forces. I will grant that Markets are not perfect and cannot account for all externalities or be able to offset seemingly inevitable paradigm shifts like climate change as they tend to lag behind incumbent tech (that is often subsidized by those who supposedly are regulating them no less) but most of that was in regards to Consumer goods/services at the retail level which can be solved in an iterative process. What will likely occur and is my bigger worry is monopolization, unfortunately. But then that has already happened the most critical Industries as it is.