12-06-2016, 10:32 AM
(12-06-2016, 04:04 AM)Galen Wrote:(12-05-2016, 06:15 PM)taramarie Wrote: "We need those regulations. Without them the people and the planet suffer for the sake of elites' profits."
I actually agree with Eric on this.
You don't really understand the magnitude of the problem I suggest that you find out the size of the regulatory burden in the US. If you are unfortunate enough to be in California its much worse. This is the result of an unelected bureaucracy that is out of control.
The regulatory burden exists because the free market does nothing to prevent such deeds as toxic dumping, adulteration of foodstuffs, dishonesty in disclosure of financial statements, inducing workers to do unpaid overtime off the clock, asking female employees from offering themselves as fringe benefits to male bosses... Regulation exists because human nature is flawed, and because abuses in the past have obliged government responsible to the People to control those who wield economic power.
If Humanity were invariably good then we would need no regulation -- or police, courts of law, or prisons.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.