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I agree. I am always sickened by the US politicians pointing to Chinese "regulations" (or lack-thereof) on labor or the environment as competitive advantages t
by wavefunction 13y ago
I agree. I am always sickened by the US politicians pointing to Chinese "regulations" (or lack-thereof) on labor or the environment as competitive advantages to be emulated.
Then I remind myself these are the same sorts of people that have never left the borders of the US and don't understand exactly how wonderfully _clean_ the US is in comparison to those sorts of places.
I hope for the sake of the Chinese people and the rest of the world that they figure it out. We are starting to have similar problems with "unresponsive" governments in the West and it will unfortunately be to everyone's peril eventually.
- dnautics 13y agothe story isn't quite as monolithic as that though, in the 19th century America, lawsuits came about as people claimed that pollution from factories caused personal damage and the state courts repeatedly ruled that industrial progress (and the resulting economic growth) were protected interests and put the kaibosh on them - e.g. Lexington & Ohio Rail Road v. Applegate. So having a 'responsive' government can be a problem, depending on exactly whom the government is 'responding' to.
- wavefunction 13y agoWell certainly, and littering in America was supposedly endemic before the anti-littering campaigns of the 1960s with stiff penalties were instituted. That is my frustration - that short-sighted individuals don't realize how hard fought and won many of the things they take for granted are.