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And I suppose deregulation didn't have anything to do with current crisis either? You guys keep flogging this dead horse despite all the evidence to the contrary. Do you even realize just what you are proposing?
No regulations means no health and safety protection, no environmental protection, no child labor laws, no minimum wage etc, etc, etc.
Us guys? Who is 'you guys'? It is only me. You may want to read my statement again, I was talking about the current crisis.
I haven't advocated anarchy. I have advocated the 'less is more' doctrine, if you would like to call it that. But, I'll play along anyway. Contrary to what many people think, I believe groups of humans tend towards morality and organization. That's why I think we have advanced to the point we are at. In a perfect society, I don't think we would need laws to compel people to be fair to others, and people would behave that way naturally. I think a rotten business will fail because it will be unable to gain or retain valuable workers and because communities will hold them in low regard and refuse to buy their products. We have choices with what we will do after all. But let's just say that our society has not reached that level of perfection, or perhaps I am wrong and laws are always necessary - why must it be done on such a large level rather than things being enforced more on a community level? Why do I have to pay for Social Security I don't want for 310,999,999 other people? Or conform to laws that have never applied to me or make my day-to-day life unnecessarily difficult? If these laws and systems were administered individually on a community-based level, not only would the programs be more cost effective, I would have the opportunity to choose to live in a community where the rules and taxes more appropriately conform to the lifestyle I want (you could, for example, find a community that provides more social programs in exchange for higher tax rates). The only need for national taxes that I see would be to provide protection from foreign invasion in the form of a military (also to step in in instances where a community has infringed upon basic human rights/ignored contractual obligations). I see many benefits to that without any drawbacks.
And what makes you think you will be on the winning side in this nightmare? You might end up shoveling asbestos for 3 bucks per hour
It sounds like you don't believe that a capitalist utopia can exist where even the lowest people on the bell curve live comfortably (what Reagan would have referred to as Reaganomics). And while I think this is possible, and that the poor today are vastly better off than they were 100 years ago, it is within the realm of possibility that you are correct. I would be willing to take a chance that I could end up shoveling asbestos for $3/hr if I got the opportunity to see if my vision would turn out. And you know what, I would work as hard as I possibly could shoveling that damn asbestos.
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