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> I support regulation because I care more about not having lead in my water than letting billionaires have fun.
I like regulations too. But have you ever lived in a Catch 22 jurisdiction? Regulations conflict, nobody harmonizes them, you can’t get anything done. I did economic development and we wanted to build a manufacturing plant with 500 jobs. First it was a site survey, then an environmental survey, then a traffic survey, then an easement plan - not concurrent. Finally it got on a local docket for planners and councilmen to consider, which bumped to the next session, which led to another stay and demands for more info.
Mind you this was for a plant in a post-industrial disused area with limited traffic. It was pitched as gift wrapped for anyone who would remediate it and restore it to use.
We took our business down South and were up and running in a few months.
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Regulations are good in theory. Like a nice high trust society. But integrating regulations with fines and fees, and subversive cultures is where it goes wrong because it just turns into packaging.
Mr. Black Boi joined in and replied with this 2 weeks ago, 11 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,435,601
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Ngl, I’m pretty sure "high trust culture" is just when everybody acts naive. Like, I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen people get up when I’m sitting somewhere and leave their bags and their laptop and phone and everything and go to the bathroom without saying anything. They don’t ask me to watch their stuff, they don’t look around or anything, they don’t tell their friend anything. They just notice we’re in a room, there’s me, there’s them, there’s nobody else, and they’re like, "Yeah I trust that guy it’s whatever." And they’re right, but still, I never do that, because I don’t trust anybody, because I’m not an idiot!
Mr. Black Boi double-posted this 2 weeks ago, 38 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,435,602
It’s like, yeah, everybody just assumes I won’t steal their stuff, so everybody just gets up and leaves in front of me when nobody else is there, and they’re right. But they can’t know that!
Mr. Black Boi triple-posted this 2 weeks ago, 11 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,435,603
People who want to live in high trust cultures are the type of people who will gladly use the urinal next to somebody else who’s also using the urinal when every stall is open just in case somebody has to poop. It’s nonsense behavior!
> People who want to live in high trust cultures are the type of people who will gladly use the urinal next to somebody else who’s also using the urinal when every stall is open just in case somebody has to poop. It’s nonsense behavior!
Every libertarian community experiment collapses under theft and lawsuits. But there’s a balance between the regulations we all benefit from and over regulation that leads to stagnation. The stagnation kind comes from bureaucracies that worship progress instead of outcomes.
The current deregulation effort doesn’t target that. It targets regs that support financial transparency, clean water, clean air, workers’ rights — it’s deregulation to benefit big money and the bosses.
boof replied with this 2 weeks ago, 33 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,435,658
many regulations are said to be written in blood. when a regulation is relaxed, unenforced, or removed, it is an experiment to see if something horrible enough happens that people think, "oh right, that's why we had that regulation"