Well, I wont pretend to have sources in hand, but as I understand it things like child labor were already gone by the time it was regulated away, or like having

Well, I wont pretend to have sources in hand, but as I understand it things like child labor were already gone by the time it was regulated away, or like having breaks was found to improve worker efficiency before they were required by law. You can see this from a couple years ago when jeff bezos using a sockpuppet account to lambast bernie sanders attacks on amazon, he said amazon had a higher starting wage than bernies own states minimum wage and called on him to do better; yes, absolutely true but also a pristine reason not to raise the minimum wage, it wouldn't even affect amazon, americas largest private sector workforce. As to environmental regulations, those carbon tetraflourides (i think that was it) were removed before regulations. The emissions of modern vehicles being relatively low is as much a product of manufacturers marketing better gas mileage, low NVH (noise, vibration, hashness), and improved performance, as it has been about environmental regulation. Energy is a ladder, where every step represents higher capital investment and lower long run costs, it also generally represents lower emissions, from burning literal shit>wood>coal>oil>natural gas>nuclear; it shouldn't surpise anyone that the government didnt need to regulate away burning shit for energy.