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Our regulatory state mandates small airplanes use leaded gasoline and has for many decades, literally harming poor children the most. Our regulatory state driv
by coryrc 3y ago
Our regulatory state mandates small airplanes use leaded gasoline and has for many decades, literally harming poor children the most.
Our regulatory state drives up the cost of housing in numerous ways (zoning, arc-fault breakers, "look and feel", etc). Children don't hardly see their parents because they must drive long distances to commute, they don't get adequate supervision.
Our culture is what allows this to continue. We culturally don't demand excellence. We denigrate smart people. We refuse to have standards for raising children, leading to inter-generational idiocy. And now those idiots vote to keep making more idiots ("don't say gay", anti-abortion, no free BC, etc.) Regulation won't fix a broken culture.
- maxsilver 3y ago> Regulation won't fix a broken culture. That's fine. Regulation's "job" isn't to "fix a broken culture", it exists to prevent repeat mistakes -- especially risky/damaging ones. The saying goes, "safety regulations are written in blood" -- that most of the regulations we have exist to prevent some kind of tragedy that has already happened at least once. > Our regulatory state drives up the cost of housing in numerous ways ("look and feel", etc). Most of those are not regulations, they're just rules. (i.e., 'neighborhood character / look and feel'). > Our regulatory state drives up the cost of housing (arc-fault breakers) That's not a 'cost drive-up', that's basic safety. (AFCI breakers literally prevent home electrical fires, Home Depot sells these at full retail markup for like ~$50/each. (120v,15a). You might use, what 12 of these on the average home? $600 total? On a $300k new build, AFCI costs you 0.2% of your total budget. These are not why housing is expensive).
- coryrc 3y agoIt's not "basic safety", it's akin to mandating helmet use while driving cars.