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Wrong. The problems come from regulation itself. From bureaucracies that freeze innovation, protect incumbents, and smother experimentation under compliance cos

Wrong. The problems come from regulation itself. From bureaucracies that freeze innovation, protect incumbents, and smother experimentation under compliance costs, etc.

ggm 1y ago
... in his opinion.
WarOnPrivacy 1y ago
> The problems come from regulation itself. The problems also come from improperly regulated businesses, operating in the 3rd stage of encrapification where they stifle innovation that threaten their *opoly and the choke-hold they have on their captured regulators. Every ideology and system is fundamentally flawed. Worse, zealots (of said I/S) compulsively refuse to recognize that their own house needs cleaning. And they not only don't clean, they'll savagely attack anyone who attempts to do the needed cleaning (improve the ideology by addressing it's flaws). No One Anywhere Will Clean Their Own House is an absolute human constant, right between death and taxes.
Hansappreciator 1y ago
Regulation is the result of politics, and politics is the result (in democracies) of the inputs of every person in society. Dismissing regulation, or in Thiel's formulation, conflating regulators with the antichrist is therefore anti-democratic and anti-people. The anti-regulation side of SV, which comes from the libertarian / Randian utopia, is one of its least appealing and most ignorant aspects.
- mac-attack 1y ago
  Libertarianism is selfishness inoculated from the human condition
- Animats 1y ago
  Regulation is usually the result of some industry way overdoing bad stuff.
ajuc 1y ago
There's always regulation. The choice is between self-serving regulation by a few lucky assholes or regulation by society for the society. If you let the tobacco industry self-regulate, smoking ads would still be legal, and there would be no ban on selling cigarettes to kids. This is the situation in IT.
- sigwinch 1y ago
  And certainly, upstarts and social challenges to incumbent tobacconists would be met with regulations.

Wrong. The problems come from regulation itself. From bureaucracies that freeze innovation, protect incumbents, and smother experimentation under compliance costs, etc.

ggm 1y ago

... in his opinion.

WarOnPrivacy 1y ago

> The problems come from regulation itself. The problems also come from improperly regulated businesses, operating in the 3rd stage of encrapification where they stifle innovation that threaten their *opoly and the choke-hold they have on their captured regulators. Every ideology and system is fundamentally flawed. Worse, zealots (of said I/S) compulsively refuse to recognize that their own house needs cleaning. And they not only don't clean, they'll savagely attack anyone who attempts to do the needed cleaning (improve the ideology by addressing it's flaws). No One Anywhere Will Clean Their Own House is an absolute human constant, right between death and taxes.

Hansappreciator 1y ago

Regulation is the result of politics, and politics is the result (in democracies) of the inputs of every person in society. Dismissing regulation, or in Thiel's formulation, conflating regulators with the antichrist is therefore anti-democratic and anti-people. The anti-regulation side of SV, which comes from the libertarian / Randian utopia, is one of its least appealing and most ignorant aspects.

mac-attack 1y ago
Libertarianism is selfishness inoculated from the human condition
Animats 1y ago
Regulation is usually the result of some industry way overdoing bad stuff.

ajuc 1y ago

There's always regulation. The choice is between self-serving regulation by a few lucky assholes or regulation by society for the society. If you let the tobacco industry self-regulate, smoking ads would still be legal, and there would be no ban on selling cigarettes to kids. This is the situation in IT.

sigwinch 1y ago
And certainly, upstarts and social challenges to incumbent tobacconists would be met with regulations.