Today having quality standards means that people have some amount of faith in the products sold on shelves. The alternative doesn't mean that the bad products g

Today having quality standards means that people have some amount of faith in the products sold on shelves. The alternative doesn't mean that the bad products go away, or that everyone would just "be careful" somehow and find ways to guess at how safe things are. We know we can't trust everything sold to us, and we really have no ability to tell what's killing us or our family. If we could all just always look out for ourselves we'd never have kids dying because of heavy metals in their applesauce. It's a weird thing when people are convinced that the solution to snake oil salesmen and serial murderers are making those very things commonplace and perfectly legal. There are times when corporations abuse regulations to add excessive burdens on their would-be competitors, but making sure your toasters don't electrocute you or burn your house down isn't one of those situations. There are also times when our government and their regulations don't protect people as well as they should. That's a sign that we need more regulations and better enforcement/accountability, not an indication that we should give up trying to hold anyone to any kind of standards in the first place. Honestly, we want the responsibility to be on government agencies because when they fail to protect our interests we at least have the option to vote them out and replace them with people who will do their job. You don't get to vote out the CEO or shareholders who decide to become serial killers so that they can make a little extra money on top of the millions/billions they already make in profits. Why would you want to limit your own power so that others can exploit you more easily? Companies have shown time and time again that they will knowingly poison you, kill you even, if they think it will make them more money. They'll spend tons of time and money trying to cover it up too. You'd rather trust them than your own elected representatives? Maybe you've been voting for the wrong people...