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[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 day ago (4 children)

just to point out the other side of this...

(and I already know I'ma be downvoted for just saying that)

Some regulations are bad. Many are good and we actually need them, but some are bad. For example, when there's a few large companies in an industry, they often lobby for regulations designed to increase the cost of doing business. While the big fish can pay the costs of these extra regulations, smaller companies cant, and just cant compete with the big fish, lowering the amount of competition in the industry and promoting more monopolistic behavior. We saw Openai try to do exactly this back when they went to Congress to warn the senators about the dangers of 'agi' and how it quickly needed to be regulated. Well they failed, and now there's tons of companies with their own products that rival Chatgpt in every way other than the brand recognition.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 6 points 22 hours ago

There's also regulations that actually hurt the things they are intended to protect. It's generally called perverse incentives. The example here is related to endangered species. It's in the interest of those that find an endangered species on their property to "shovel and shut up" as the presence only creates problems for the owner.

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you don’t solve this by having less regulations lmao

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

its solved by getting money out of politics, along with removing regulations that don't make sense and keeping the ones that do

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Folks here think regulation, and immediately put it to food and Ai or other white collar applications.

Working in plastic manufacturing for ten years, and chemical manufacturing for a few more, the term deregulatuon terrifies me. Regulations keep employees safe, and aims to keep the products we make safe.

I think of environmental impacts first and foremost, which is the kind of deregulation I assumed was meant with this regimes obsession with bringing back coal, oil, and mining/deforestation if our national parks.

Getting money out of politics is implemented with regulation. We only have one environment, and they want to deregulate environmental safety/preservation.

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

...removing regulations that don’t make sense and keeping the ones that do

Having safety regulations for plastic manufacturing and protecting the environment makes sense, so those should exist.

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 20 points 1 day ago

sure but regulatory capture and a controlled market are not really a counter argument to regulation so much as an argument for more regulation

strict rules enforcing disclosure and other sunshine laws are key to exposing corruption like you are suggesting

[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Wait, so you’re telling me that this politician who will definitely get a CEO position in that company does not want to make life better for me?

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The tweet itself limits its scope to food safety regulations specifically. The title of this lemmy post was condensed for brevity, which might create the impression that it's trying to make a larger point about regulations in toto. But I figured I could get away with it because I figured that surely people would read the tweet before commenting.

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

I know, but pretty much every comment on this point about regulation isn't just discussing food regulations, their talking about regulations as a whole. Also my point about some regulations not helping can still be applied to foods.

I mean look at the stuff they say about ketchup:

The consistency of the finished food is such that its flow is not more than 14 centimeters in 30 seconds at 20 °C when tested in a Bostwick Consistometer in the following manner: Check temperature of mixture and adjust to 20±1 °C.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-155/subpart-B/section-155.194 - section B, part 1.

the flow of ketchup does not matter in the slightest to anyone

[–] Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

People? Read? Never.

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

Reminds me of car startups (in the US) taking off one wheel, turning them into moto/autocycles, so they wouldn't have to go through expensive car certification processes