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>We know what wide-open unregulated markets result in when lives are at stake. Death is bad for business? I dunno why this myth that without government life w
by EricE 2y ago
>We know what wide-open unregulated markets result in when lives are at stake.
Death is bad for business? I dunno why this myth that without government life would be a deadly hellscape seems to persist.
- lainga 2y agoSunk-tax fallacy.
- schiffern 2y agoIf we're talking wide-open unregulated markets, that's pretty obvious. It just comes from experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jan/06/bp-oil-spill-deepwater-horizon https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jan/06/bp-oil-s... etc etc
- bell-cot 2y ago> I dunno why this myth that without government ... /s? (Look at the quality of life in failing/failed states, where there's effectively no government. Libertarian paradises are extremely rare; deadly hellscapes are all too common.)