Regulating products to ensure that you're being sold something that isn't going to kill you is not "the government giving you permission"? Without regulation, what's to keep private companies from selling us anything from snake oil to straight up poison while at the same time telling us that it's that it will cure all of our diseases? Why would anyone be against something that HELPS them?
a) A business will lose customers if they intentionally release poor products, there is no profit incentive
b) You can sue the business if their product harms you
c) Most state regulations are not to protect the people, they are to protect the big businesses from competition. Execs bribe congressmen and it forms a government-corporation cartel.
Good luck going up against a massive corporate legal team with whatever legal representation you can afford. You can't even do a class-action suit anymore.
At last we get to see Doren's daily routine and learn a little more behind the little man. Shame I had to come over here to consume that content and HowTheWorldWorks does not provide shots of his studio apartment over at his channel.
Woah, wait a minute. Without big government, all the food sold in this country would be poisonous! Without government regulation, none of the automobiles would work. Without government bureaucracies, there would be no charitable organizations. We NEED big government because otherwise we're all doomed!
The Founding Fathers understood all this. That's why we have taxes and the largest military on the planet. Landru will guide us.
Wow. I'm amazed at the number of people here who are conflating "There are too many regulations on too many aspects of life that don't need so much regulation - and certification standards like UL could carry much of the burden of what IS needed" with "I don't want inspections! I want rat poison/poop in my food! I want to kill people! I want to allow poison in my food!"
"The United States of America should use China's shining example as model to rebuild its regulatory laws and agencies" - The Competitive Enterprise Institute
I was going to reply to a comment here but looking through all of comments. This comment is for every singe stupidcocksuckingbitchmadeasspoundees who said something stupid about not having sewers or lights or food or roads or whatthefuckeverelse and missed the point of the video.
Nicely done! This video was hilarious! I love the bit where you suggest that a working sewage and storm water system is "the man" trying to keep you down. We need to go back to the days of a ditch down the middle of the street full of sewage and trash, back before the government screwed everything up!
Once again, you guys rock! I haven't laughed this hard in a while.
This is a parody right? This is exactly the kind of video the Onion would make to lampoon people who want more deregulation.
By the way, note the vital absence of anything to do with the stock market in this video. It would have been great if there was a shot of this guy walking by Wall Street, with ominous green arrows pointing at the many horrible regulations strangling Goldman-Sachs et al...
@vp1981ad I know, it's weird. Usually you see Poe's Law being exhibited by fundamentalist nutters. Big L Libertarian corporatists show them how it's done!
Is he really citing the roles of the FDA and other safety commissions as "evidence" that people require permission to carry out basic tasks? A junior-high student could tell you that the answer is "no".
Although, as heavily as it is implied that this twerp is living under the hell of a government bureaucracy, he sure does seem to be living a peaceful, efficient lifestyle. I look at all the agencies he has to (not) put up with, clearly the government can't do anything right.
As children, we are kept safe and in line by the constant oversight and iron hand of our parents. And generally, it works well. It is easy and natural then for us to assume that as adults we need a strong, parental-type government for safety and order. Free-market controls feel unnaturally precarious. Videos like this then don't help the fight for liberty, they work against it.
Adults must make their own decisions concerning themselves, whether right or wrong, in able to be truly free. If you wish to be a safe slave, then your position would be correct for you.
They probably would, but only AFTER thousands of people die or go ill due to people not knowing that their food was safe. Its really of little consolation.
Yes, if a company produced a bad product, people would stop buying but BUT... how many people would have to get sick, injured or die BEFORE the product is pulled by the company.making a profit from it?
Oh, so your saying let the companies put dangerous stuff on the shelf and let us decide.
Do you think smoking was seen as dangerous in the old days? It wasn't and I know because im old. It was pushed as something to calm you down. No warning labels etc. They came out with candy cigs, any age could buy them, etc. So as long as people believe what they are told by large companies, they will believe it because they believe that companies sell us safe items.
do you even realize that the FDA has guidelines for acceptable amounts of rat feces in your hot dogs?? maybe you should have said they came for the excess amounts of rat feces in your hot dog...
its pretty hilarious the amount of trolls on this page that immediately site eating rat feces as something we would all be doing if the state didnt regulate food, yet state regulatory agencies actually state that rat feces are acceptable in your food as long as it's not too much...
@oiuoiu988 the jungle, upton sinclair. try taking advantage of the amazing (though under attack by morons like those in this comment page) public library system the government provides.
haha, go look at my response to some idiot's first upton sinclair comment lower on this page... my family were the workers he was writing about and every worker in the stockyards knew his book was a pack of lies.
@oiuoiu988 yeah that's what regulation is, you recognize a problem such as impurities in food and water and set a limit that takes human safety into account. Oh right I forgot about your great idea of private regulators. I forgot how good things turn out allowing industries that have a vested interest in cutting costs free reign over their own safety standards.
The government was regulating the housing market (chose not to act even when called to by auditors) - GOOD JOB
The gov was regulating oil platforms when it started leaking and exploded (gave them a pass of safety measures) - Good JOB
The gov. was regulating our produce that kills people every year (prevented by irradiation that most EU countries use, but our gov prevents it) - GOOD JOB
3 cities around me have unsafe drink water all the time, gov run.
@jetrpg22 so the answer is less regulation and less punishment for not keeping to the regulations? I didn't say they were doing a flawless job but the point is that the solution is either regulations with more "teeth" that are better enforced or better regulations. Not less or none and certainly not allowing corporations to police themselves which is the point of view advocated by this video and the people that think it's so logical to go back to the guilded age
Teeth and "better regulations" are pointless; gov. employees ignored by congress becuase they dared to point out the failing of gov. redistribution policy.
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You can talk all you want, the discussion is over; politicians don't care and will not regulate.
The answer is self regulation. And people (and banks) tend to do that a lot less if someone else is telling them they are doing it for them.
@jetrpg22 What exactly is your proof of that? You say the answer is self regulation which has obvious problems, as I've pointed out there is a conflict of interest when you expect a entity whose primary and often only goal is to make money any way possible to police themselves. I could just as easily say the matter is settled against libertarianism because Somalia is a hellhole but we both know that wouldn't be intellectually honest plus there are a ton of other reasons your philosophy is shit.
So the gov. is what honest? Doesn't seek money and votes for control? I mean when the gov. does it i can't say jack but if we all are the entities that enact regulation then that is many more people to buy off.
How about history, look at the only times people as a nation move from meeting their basic needs to worrying almost solely about their higher needs. It only occurs with less central planning and control of paid for by a such a place.
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haha it's obvious this video makes the absolute opposite point it intends to make. look at how little attention that guy has to pay to the things around him BECAUSE of those regulatory agencies, which are only visible on a day-to-day basis if you add writing and arrows in post-production. he doesn't have to worry about rats in his hamburger; the USDA does it for him. look at how unconcerned he is. either this is a great troll or the video-makers are idiots.
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@NCMan28025 look at yourself. read what you typed. if you can? i'm not sure you're fully literate - you surely didn't read my post even though you responded to it. how do you function on a day-to-day level? i'm guessing the answer is "barely" as in "barely-functioning retard". luckily BIG GOVERNMENT has programs to look out for the less intellectually gifted among us (like you, and the people who made this video)
@nathanwelling Yeah, sorry I'm not a bitch-boy like yourself who constantly has to depend on the government and their burdensome regulations. America was one the envy of the industrialized world. Thanks to the over-regulating government, we no longer are #1 in manufacturing. Starting a business and operating one is more difficult thanks to regulations. I know an idiot savant such as yourself needs this explained slowly, probably at a 3rd grade level.
@NCMan28025 i'd respond in detail but i have already spent more mental work in my responses than went into any of these responses or the video itself. you are all morons who (thankfully) are marginalized on the political scene because of the irrelevancy and idiocy of your ideas. peace
@nathanwelling What? Sounds like someone has no intellectual comeback to the facts I stated. Continue believing your are more intelligent than others. Facts speak for themselves and easily defeat emotional rants.
youre so right, losing the ability to calculate situations in every day life is a good thing, not a bad thing. we dont need to calculate anything, all we need is to go on as many vacations and watch as much TV as we can!
@oiuoiu988 luckily we have the government to worry about the things we shouldn't have to worry about (is there rat shit in my burger? does the gas that that car is running on contain lead?), so we are free to focus mental energy on things other than basic survival. this stuff is basic civic theory guys, welcome to the last 10,000+ years
@oiuoiu988 luckily we have the government to worry about the things we shouldn't have to think about (is there rat shit in my burger? is there lead in this gasoline?), so we can focus on the things that matter (pursuing happiness, etc.)
this is basic "being a person in society" type stuff right here, guys. welcome to the last couple thousand years
yes, the FDA has guidelines for how much rat shit is allowed to be in your hamburger you ignorant piece of trash. feudalism was a basic "being a person in society" type thing a couple hundred years ago... in america, slavery was a basic "being a black person in society" type thing... youre an idiot.
i think regulation has become a buzz word. with a proper mindset, it only means the oversight of potentially harmful events, a standard that should be met to ensure safety for the general population. now it has transmogrified into a political tool to raise revenue for the connected in the guise of saving the world. regulation only works when the regulators do not have an incestuous relationship with the ones they are "regulating"
When you go to the paradise that is deregulated Mexico or Ghana or The Congo, do you drink the water? Do you eat food from roadside stands? Do you put your ATM card in the machines? Do you trust the hospitals to not transmit HIV or hepatitis to you through dirty syringes? I really, really hope you do. I'm sure your holy gods Market Forces and Consumer Choice make those things much safer in those countries than our oppressive American regulation.
Orwell would be turning over in his grave to see a smug little shit like you attacking the agencies that keep us from dying of typhoid or bad drugs instead of the police state your country is becoming and using his words no less. This whole thing reeks of whiny teenage libertarian shortsightedness. As if a Mcdonalds cheeseburger wasn't bad enough for you already without people in charge of making sure it doesn't kill or or isn't too filled with insect segments.
@Timmah420 well said! I could not agree more. Let some of these brats get e coli from their food, or watch a loved one die from a defective product. Then they will cry like little girls and hold their breath until the government does something!
There are regulations that ensure people do all they have agreed to do. This makes lawful societies possible.
Then there are regulations that force people to do things they would not have agreed to do. This burdens lawful societies until they fail.
This is the most important distinction to make, and no one should let a discussion of regulation pass without addressing WHICH type of "regulation" is being discussed. Failure to do so results in damage from bad deregulation AND bad regulation.
Simply incredible that libertarians don't realize how differently this video is seen by most Americans. Instead of feeling terrified by the bureaucracy and living in horror of the dire implications, most of us easily notice that every regulation mentioned here delivers a high value at a low cost. Hyperventilating about Big Brother is embarrassingly ahistorical.
@oiuoiu988 However, OSHA is federal agency. So they are regulating UL more than UL actually does any regulation by themselves. The importance difference is that UL is more of a developer/tester of regulation rather than an enforcer, and they have to be certified themselves. Sadly OSHA is too much in the pocket of the industry. IMO, your suggestion to make private companies do all the regulation either opens for toothless enforcement or that they allowed to dictate code and use violence.
my point is that UL is better as a private company than it would be if it were a government agency. you demonstrate my point by noting that government regulatory agencies tend to end up in the pocket of the largest firms in the industry they attempt to regulate. to say that osha is doing more work or more regulation that UL would be a gross misrepresentation of the situation. UL is not even certified by OSHA, they are recognized by them.
living standards in somalia went up after the collapse of the state, zimbabwe is a statist/democrat paradise and their living standards have plummeted over the same period of time.
haha, like you cant just look it up.... or watch a video called stateless in somalia, im not sure if its on youtube but google it if its not on YT. look at the value of zimbabwe's currency over the last 20 years.
You don't specifically need the government's permission to do much, however, companies need the government's permission to sell you toothpaste not laced with melamine, burgers that won't give you botulism, road signals that work, ATMs that don't steal your cash, etc, etc. So please, continue to rage against all of this government interference, because clearly, life would be a hell of a lot better in a true government interference-free country (Move to Somalia you dumb shits).
My guess, w/ out gov. regulations (there are still laws) a voluntary service would have completely taken over. Kinda like reading reviews on Amazon, consumer reports etc., there may be "private business inspection" labels on products - if the consumer demands it. IMO, this would be cheaper than more-and-more regulatory departments as time goes on. We forget big-business supports regulations more than opposing them, since it raises production cost.
ahahaha, 95%+ of the stuff that CEI whines about in this video are things that make life in the US safer, freer, happier and more prosperous for everybody
Uh sorry you're not going to convince me that it's a bad thing the government checks to ensure I'm not sold dangerous products and poisoned food. How stupid do you think we are? Yeah make safety regulations even more lax whats the worse that could happen? a giant oil spill?
These are the same conservative who want the government to strip Americans of their citizenship because America is a "battlefield". Meanwhile, this idiot doesn't want the government to keep Kraft from using asbestos in his cereal.
competitive enterprise institute is funded by companies like Exxon Mobil (oil company), Phillip Morris (Tobacco, cigarette company), Pfizer (drug company).
not the governments side, until you realize that history has been a struggle between man and state you just wont understand. democracy is like some religion to you idiots.
1. Tax increases because people have no common sense
2. Stupid people continue to do stupid things because the living ones sue the hell out of the company and continue to encourage people to do more stupid things
3. Many removed from homes or but cloths or food because of minor and usually indictable amounts of 'lead'
4.Everything becomes offensive and every small thing becomes as sacred as the holy bible (nanny state allies)
It's odd to see capitalists quote George Orwell, a dedicated socialist who was a member of a Marxist militia during the Spanish Civil War.
I've seen a lot of this lately. The other day Glenn Beck condemned socialism and unions, and then glorified MLK, saying that we ought to embrace his principles. Well, MLK was a socialist, and he was in Memphis (where he was assassinated) to support striking union workers.
"the only reason companies DON'T put rat feces in hot dogs is because of GOVERNMENT REGULATION"
gee, I thought it was because NO ONE WOULD BUY hot dogs with rat feces, but maybe some people like that sort of thing... thank god the govt is there to save them from themselves and their rat-poop-eating tendencies.
@juice797 "gee, I thought it was because NO ONE WOULD BUY hot dogs with rat feces, but maybe some people like that sort of thing". You're right. People wouldn't but hot dogs if there was rat feces in them. But people wouldn't know if there were rat feces in them (since hot dogs get ground up) without GOVERNMENT REGULATION. Jeez.
Wow, transactions and daily routines are going so smoothly even with all this government oversight! I guess the people claiming that the government ruins everything are full of bullshit!
That's the point of this commercial, right? I mean, it can't possibly be trying to convince us that our day-to-day life is a nightmarish hellscape because "OH NO THE GUBMINT."
STOP SAYING UNDERWRITERS' LABORATORIES REGULATES STUFF. They have no--none--regulatory powers. They do safety testing purely so that companies can get insurance and prove compliance with regulatory processes. That's it
haha, now its regulatory powers??? they have regulatory powers, governments send samples of their water to this PRIVATE COMPANY and recognize the authority of the UL in inspection and testing. a stateless society would most likely be based on a web of contracts, insurance AND other types of contracts. i'm glad youre starting to recognize how society can be regulated without violence.
End regulation! Bring back child labor! Abolish the weekend! Bring back x-rays for shoe fitting! Let McDonalds put in mad cow tainted brains in their burgers! Replace the asbestos in my house!
Ahaha look at this disnenguous trash. "General Mills can't sell me cereal made of broken glass" = "I NEED PERMISSION TO WIPE MY OWN ASS! WHAT A TERRIFYING STATE OF AFFAIRS!"
You don't give a flying fuck about me or even the actor you hired to represent me. You care about your members' expenses for regulatory compliance. Don't try to sell that to me as fucking altruism, scumbags.
This video is red meat for those who don't really think much. "ZOMG! Government regulation = BAD!" To people like that, I want to ask, "How much rat feces do you like in your hot dogs?"
or for people who understand the inherent feedback mechanisms that regulate voluntary human action... government regulation actually CAUSES people to not have to think or calculate. thats part of the reason people like you are so ignorant that you think were against regulation...
Every single one of those things labeled as being regulated should obviously be regulated. Indeed, there were plenty of things in those shots that were *not* under federal regulation, and which obviously should be. The idiotic leading questions are all trivially answerable with "No", so overall the message is stupid and self-defeating.
Oh, now that I've seen your website I understand: It's a think-tank for retards. How nice! It's good that the handicapable have jobs, though I worry that you're being manipulated since your funding is apparently not one of those things you care to be honest about. Go fuck yourselves.
I love that all of these regulatory agencies exist so my mattress isn't stuffed with things that will kill me, that my toothpaste and milk won't poison me, that the phone system works properly, that workplaces must at least provide some measure of security and safety for their employees.
How cool it is that we live in a country that is not only looking out for us as individuals but provides protections for free speech that lets you guys make videos to prove how moronic you are! Yay!
if you think we're against regulation youre an idiot. the difference between you and us is that YOU arent smart enough to understand the reasons why private regulatory agencies work better than government regulatory agencies. you just havent read enough about economics to understand why monopolies necessarily become disconnected from the consumer of their services. you are ignorant to the inherent feedback mechanisms that REGULATE voluntary human action.
@oiuoiu988 Ummm...look, if I spent all my time arguing with the mildly retarded on the internet, I'd never get anything done. Get a chin implant and take care of your haircut and you'll get laid and won't sit around jerking off worrying about the FDA.
i have no idea what thats supposed to mean but you pretty much admitted you cant defend your position. thanks for playing. p.s. i'm married with kids.
@oiuoiu988 Defend my position? My position is simply that I enjoy the protections of the regulations of the state. I'm sorry you apparently suck at getting your point across, but running around and calling other people morons and idiots because they don't understand what you didn't say is a symptom of your disease.
so are you saying you are against the private regulations that you enjoy the benefits of??? maybe you should move to another country where they dont have private regulatory agencies regulating their products? the point is not that we are anti-regulation you fool, its that private regulators operate far more efficiently than government regulators and they somehow manage to get paid for only by the people who use them and, get this, its on a VOLUNTARY BASIS!!!
@oiuoiu988 Voluntary regulation! Wow! Nothing could go wrong with that! You're everything that's wrong with capitalism. It's not a one-size fits all solution, but since you have the intellectual horsepower of a Yugo, you'll never understand that.
@oiuoiu988 UL doesn't "regulate" anything, dipshit. They do inspect products, but that's not regulation. And there's no requirement for anything to have UL listing. Companies use UL to obtain underwriting for insurance purposes (hence the "underwriter's" part.) Disingenuous fucktard.
@oiuoiu988 No, I don't bring my alarm clock into the bathtub because I'm an engineer and understand how electricity works. UL is not regulation because there's no requirement for anything to have a UL listing. It's also incredibly expensive. But you can have your little party of stupid. God help us if you ever get your way.
god help us if we ever figure out a way to solve our problems without using violence, right? you'll have to excuse me, ive never studied electricity and thats why i always shower with my alarm clock and my hair dryer... ive died like 65 times already.
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@oiuoiu988 Wow, you are the master of keeping your head up your ass. I've managed to keep myself and my companies in regulatory compliance for two decades now without ever feeling "threatened." Maybe you should actually get a real job because (a)as an internet pundit, you suck, and (b) you need experience in what regulation actually is.
@BlueSkies360 Obama wasn't president when the financial crisis happened. Nice try. You're an idiot and you keep proving it everytime your fingers touch your keyboard.
@BlueSkies360 Go read a financial history of the US during the 19th Century, with the attendant panics and depressions every 5 years or so, and then when you're done, read some financial history. We went SEVENTY years without a major panic. Within 10 years of undoing those protections, we had one. Coincidence?
yea, our economy was great in the 70's... government has manged to fuck up the economy from 1930-1946 and from 1969-1983 and now from 07-??? thats 36 of the last 81 years that "we the people" have had to suffer because our government tries to control our economy. 36 out of 81 years and NPR has you convinced everything was fine all along... all i have to say is hahahahahahaha!
@oiuoiu988 We went for 70 years without a financial panic or depression. You can twist what I said however you want, but the facts still speak for themselves. Get a life. I'm done talking with you, you lying sack of shit.
yea, the facts i mentioned speak for your fallacious interpretations. so stagflation is ok with you?? the death of your currency?? maybe you should move to zimbabwe!
@oiuoiu988 You seem to be having problems with "go fuck yourself." You are a liar. Your wife must be so proud. "My husband lies for a living on the internet! " You're a scuzzy lying sack of shit. Manipulate what I said all you want, but it was ***deregulation*** that led to this current mess, and we went SEVENTY YEARS without a panic of depression.
youre retarded. its a good thing the people running the country arent as dumb as you because city water works' are a GREAT example of a service that is being privatized all over the world because of the evidence that private companies serve the consumer better than government.
The only defense for these regulations is to say that government knows best. I'm not saying that other people know better, but the government has no incentive to do a good job regulating your life for you. If you care about something in your life, regulate it yourself! When you pay for the government to regulate your life for you, you pay for the government to regulate other people's lives too. If you want to be a mindless slave go ahead, but leave me out of it.
@rockachopa Why is it then that FDA stops so many drugs from reaching the market because of side effects? If they have no incentive to help us, why do they bother to do the testing?
@gensu3k1 The drugs should be on the market though, if they can possibly help people. Just put the side effects on the label and let the person decide what they want to buy or medicate themselves with.
And I said they have no incentive to do a good job. It is so expensive to do FDA testing that it sometimes people can't even afford to get a drug that is good and works to be FDA approved. The FDA loses nothing if they don't approve good drugs.
@rockachopa NO the defense is that businesses have very little incentive to do what's right or what's fair. Before government stepped it, there was no overtime, no benefits, no workers comp, no child labor laws, water was contaminated, the streets of your average city were covered in dung, urine, vomit. Landlords raised the rent whenever they wanted to, many buildings were firetraps. Pick up a history book. We've already seen what happens when we leave it up to businesses, people die.
business' depend on voluntary action (in the absence of government intervention) government depends on coercive action. its just that simple, an institution that gets all of its money from stealing has no incentive to please the victim of said theft.
Actually, is this a pro consumer protection ad? I'm glad companies are not allowed to lie to me anymore. How do people get so stupid?
thestinkymonkeh 10 months ago
Regulating products to ensure that you're being sold something that isn't going to kill you is not "the government giving you permission"? Without regulation, what's to keep private companies from selling us anything from snake oil to straight up poison while at the same time telling us that it's that it will cure all of our diseases? Why would anyone be against something that HELPS them?
BigWorm242 1 year ago
@BigWorm242 Total ignorance....
pismo10 1 year ago
@BigWorm242
a) A business will lose customers if they intentionally release poor products, there is no profit incentive
b) You can sue the business if their product harms you
c) Most state regulations are not to protect the people, they are to protect the big businesses from competition. Execs bribe congressmen and it forms a government-corporation cartel.
Ilikemustard 10 months ago
@Ilikemustard
Good luck going up against a massive corporate legal team with whatever legal representation you can afford. You can't even do a class-action suit anymore.
BigWorm242 9 months ago
It's HowTheWorldWorks!!!
At last we get to see Doren's daily routine and learn a little more behind the little man. Shame I had to come over here to consume that content and HowTheWorldWorks does not provide shots of his studio apartment over at his channel.
hyperseauton 1 year ago
Comment l'état régit votre vie à chaque minute et dans tous les domaines...effrayant.
MrGengisCohn 1 year ago
Woah, wait a minute. Without big government, all the food sold in this country would be poisonous! Without government regulation, none of the automobiles would work. Without government bureaucracies, there would be no charitable organizations. We NEED big government because otherwise we're all doomed!
The Founding Fathers understood all this. That's why we have taxes and the largest military on the planet. Landru will guide us.
GalacticQuadrant3 1 year ago
but my freedom
daledheyalef 1 year ago
My sister's Fiance is at 0:50. XD
He's barely old enough to serve alcohol. lol
svn2cool 1 year ago
Wow. I'm amazed at the number of people here who are conflating "There are too many regulations on too many aspects of life that don't need so much regulation - and certification standards like UL could carry much of the burden of what IS needed" with "I don't want inspections! I want rat poison/poop in my food! I want to kill people! I want to allow poison in my food!"
So much for nuance.
midknight32 1 year ago
"The United States of America should use China's shining example as model to rebuild its regulatory laws and agencies" - The Competitive Enterprise Institute
Munkeymon 1 year ago
Well done. A day in the life of Lee!
Alvin691 1 year ago
I was going to reply to a comment here but looking through all of comments. This comment is for every singe stupidcocksuckingbitchmadeasspoundees who said something stupid about not having sewers or lights or food or roads or whatthefuckeverelse and missed the point of the video.
milliradian 1 year ago
Wow. Really? Taxes: Your bill for the privilege of living in a (mostly) just and civilized society.
Markle2k 1 year ago
sad that some here would have total opposite opinion if they watched this video 4 years ago.
If your one of those people than your lying to yourself and it's time to wake up..
darangm 1 year ago
Nicely done! This video was hilarious! I love the bit where you suggest that a working sewage and storm water system is "the man" trying to keep you down. We need to go back to the days of a ditch down the middle of the street full of sewage and trash, back before the government screwed everything up!
Once again, you guys rock! I haven't laughed this hard in a while.
Oxnard5000 1 year ago
This is a parody right? This is exactly the kind of video the Onion would make to lampoon people who want more deregulation.
By the way, note the vital absence of anything to do with the stock market in this video. It would have been great if there was a shot of this guy walking by Wall Street, with ominous green arrows pointing at the many horrible regulations strangling Goldman-Sachs et al...
vp1981ad 1 year ago
@vp1981ad I know, it's weird. Usually you see Poe's Law being exhibited by fundamentalist nutters. Big L Libertarian corporatists show them how it's done!
Markle2k 1 year ago
Damn regulatory agencies. If only we had less regulation like in China where toys have proper lead in them.
Gman256 1 year ago
I cannot stop laughing. This is a joke, right? Please tell me it's a joke.
pcg13 1 year ago
Is he really citing the roles of the FDA and other safety commissions as "evidence" that people require permission to carry out basic tasks? A junior-high student could tell you that the answer is "no".
Although, as heavily as it is implied that this twerp is living under the hell of a government bureaucracy, he sure does seem to be living a peaceful, efficient lifestyle. I look at all the agencies he has to (not) put up with, clearly the government can't do anything right.
11111110 1 year ago
As children, we are kept safe and in line by the constant oversight and iron hand of our parents. And generally, it works well. It is easy and natural then for us to assume that as adults we need a strong, parental-type government for safety and order. Free-market controls feel unnaturally precarious. Videos like this then don't help the fight for liberty, they work against it.
bradwatson7324 1 year ago
@bradwatson7324
Adults must make their own decisions concerning themselves, whether right or wrong, in able to be truly free. If you wish to be a safe slave, then your position would be correct for you.
Silveracity 1 year ago
Companies get regulated because... if they aren't watched, they put profits above our health. Too bad the fines are minimal.
xetlive 1 year ago
@xetlive
If a company produced a product that people did not want because it was unhealthy and people didnt like that, it would go out of business, wouldnt it?
Unless. people like to be unhealthy? What percentage of people in the USA are unhealthy and or overweight?
Silveracity 1 year ago
@Silveracity
They probably would, but only AFTER thousands of people die or go ill due to people not knowing that their food was safe. Its really of little consolation.
11111110 1 year ago
@Silveracity
Yes, if a company produced a bad product, people would stop buying but BUT... how many people would have to get sick, injured or die BEFORE the product is pulled by the company.making a profit from it?
DO you want to be their guinea pig? Not me.
xetlive 1 year ago
@xetlive
But then, how many people continue to smoke tobacco and drink alcohol , even knowing that doing so will probably lead to their deaths?
Do you really believe you can protect people from their own stupidity?
Silveracity 1 year ago
@Silveracity
Oh, so your saying let the companies put dangerous stuff on the shelf and let us decide.
Do you think smoking was seen as dangerous in the old days? It wasn't and I know because im old. It was pushed as something to calm you down. No warning labels etc. They came out with candy cigs, any age could buy them, etc. So as long as people believe what they are told by large companies, they will believe it because they believe that companies sell us safe items.
xetlive 1 year ago
@xetlive
Yes, that's what I am saying. Let every adult decide what they want to do with their own bodies. For good or bad.
Silveracity 1 year ago
@godhatesbooklerners
do you even realize that the FDA has guidelines for acceptable amounts of rat feces in your hot dogs?? maybe you should have said they came for the excess amounts of rat feces in your hot dog...
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
its pretty hilarious the amount of trolls on this page that immediately site eating rat feces as something we would all be doing if the state didnt regulate food, yet state regulatory agencies actually state that rat feces are acceptable in your food as long as it's not too much...
fucking retards.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
@oiuoiu988 the jungle, upton sinclair. try taking advantage of the amazing (though under attack by morons like those in this comment page) public library system the government provides.
nathanwelling 1 year ago
@nathanwelling
haha, go look at my response to some idiot's first upton sinclair comment lower on this page... my family were the workers he was writing about and every worker in the stockyards knew his book was a pack of lies.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
@oiuoiu988
haha, you seriously picked the wrong guy to drop that one on...
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
@oiuoiu988 yeah that's what regulation is, you recognize a problem such as impurities in food and water and set a limit that takes human safety into account. Oh right I forgot about your great idea of private regulators. I forgot how good things turn out allowing industries that have a vested interest in cutting costs free reign over their own safety standards.
Timmah420 1 year ago
@Timmah420
The government was regulating the housing market (chose not to act even when called to by auditors) - GOOD JOB
The gov was regulating oil platforms when it started leaking and exploded (gave them a pass of safety measures) - Good JOB
The gov. was regulating our produce that kills people every year (prevented by irradiation that most EU countries use, but our gov prevents it) - GOOD JOB
3 cities around me have unsafe drink water all the time, gov run.
Accountability is missing.
jetrpg22 1 year ago
@jetrpg22 so the answer is less regulation and less punishment for not keeping to the regulations? I didn't say they were doing a flawless job but the point is that the solution is either regulations with more "teeth" that are better enforced or better regulations. Not less or none and certainly not allowing corporations to police themselves which is the point of view advocated by this video and the people that think it's so logical to go back to the guilded age
Timmah420 1 year ago
@Timmah420
Teeth and "better regulations" are pointless; gov. employees ignored by congress becuase they dared to point out the failing of gov. redistribution policy.
/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs
/watch?v=1RZVw3no2A4
You can talk all you want, the discussion is over; politicians don't care and will not regulate.
The answer is self regulation. And people (and banks) tend to do that a lot less if someone else is telling them they are doing it for them.
jetrpg22 1 year ago
@jetrpg22 What exactly is your proof of that? You say the answer is self regulation which has obvious problems, as I've pointed out there is a conflict of interest when you expect a entity whose primary and often only goal is to make money any way possible to police themselves. I could just as easily say the matter is settled against libertarianism because Somalia is a hellhole but we both know that wouldn't be intellectually honest plus there are a ton of other reasons your philosophy is shit.
Timmah420 1 year ago
@Timmah420
So the gov. is what honest? Doesn't seek money and votes for control? I mean when the gov. does it i can't say jack but if we all are the entities that enact regulation then that is many more people to buy off.
How about history, look at the only times people as a nation move from meeting their basic needs to worrying almost solely about their higher needs. It only occurs with less central planning and control of paid for by a such a place.
jetrpg22 1 year ago
@Timmah420
well its ok as long as you remembered before you were done typing, i would suggest backspace.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
It's Howtheworldworks.
Guncriminal 1 year ago
vuahahahaaa
Realizalize 1 year ago
Dude this is the best video hands down. You should have shown the cameras on your police state street corners.
ptownpresident 1 year ago
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haha it's obvious this video makes the absolute opposite point it intends to make. look at how little attention that guy has to pay to the things around him BECAUSE of those regulatory agencies, which are only visible on a day-to-day basis if you add writing and arrows in post-production. he doesn't have to worry about rats in his hamburger; the USDA does it for him. look at how unconcerned he is. either this is a great troll or the video-makers are idiots.
nathanwelling 1 year ago
@nathanwelling Its about big government but only an idiot can't see this. The village is calling and its looking for you!
NCMan28025 1 year ago
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@NCMan28025 look at yourself. read what you typed. if you can? i'm not sure you're fully literate - you surely didn't read my post even though you responded to it. how do you function on a day-to-day level? i'm guessing the answer is "barely" as in "barely-functioning retard". luckily BIG GOVERNMENT has programs to look out for the less intellectually gifted among us (like you, and the people who made this video)
nathanwelling 1 year ago
@nathanwelling Yeah, sorry I'm not a bitch-boy like yourself who constantly has to depend on the government and their burdensome regulations. America was one the envy of the industrialized world. Thanks to the over-regulating government, we no longer are #1 in manufacturing. Starting a business and operating one is more difficult thanks to regulations. I know an idiot savant such as yourself needs this explained slowly, probably at a 3rd grade level.
NCMan28025 1 year ago
@NCMan28025 i'd respond in detail but i have already spent more mental work in my responses than went into any of these responses or the video itself. you are all morons who (thankfully) are marginalized on the political scene because of the irrelevancy and idiocy of your ideas. peace
nathanwelling 1 year ago
@nathanwelling What? Sounds like someone has no intellectual comeback to the facts I stated. Continue believing your are more intelligent than others. Facts speak for themselves and easily defeat emotional rants.
NCMan28025 1 year ago
@nathanwelling
youre so right, losing the ability to calculate situations in every day life is a good thing, not a bad thing. we dont need to calculate anything, all we need is to go on as many vacations and watch as much TV as we can!
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
@oiuoiu988 luckily we have the government to worry about the things we shouldn't have to worry about (is there rat shit in my burger? does the gas that that car is running on contain lead?), so we are free to focus mental energy on things other than basic survival. this stuff is basic civic theory guys, welcome to the last 10,000+ years
nathanwelling 1 year ago
@oiuoiu988 luckily we have the government to worry about the things we shouldn't have to think about (is there rat shit in my burger? is there lead in this gasoline?), so we can focus on the things that matter (pursuing happiness, etc.)
this is basic "being a person in society" type stuff right here, guys. welcome to the last couple thousand years
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yes, the FDA has guidelines for how much rat shit is allowed to be in your hamburger you ignorant piece of trash. feudalism was a basic "being a person in society" type thing a couple hundred years ago... in america, slavery was a basic "being a black person in society" type thing... youre an idiot.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
i think regulation has become a buzz word. with a proper mindset, it only means the oversight of potentially harmful events, a standard that should be met to ensure safety for the general population. now it has transmogrified into a political tool to raise revenue for the connected in the guise of saving the world. regulation only works when the regulators do not have an incestuous relationship with the ones they are "regulating"
jvforever72 1 year ago
I, too, miss when companies could make their food products out of feces and poison and basically enslave children and minorities.
OpheliaImmortal 1 year ago
When you go to the paradise that is deregulated Mexico or Ghana or The Congo, do you drink the water? Do you eat food from roadside stands? Do you put your ATM card in the machines? Do you trust the hospitals to not transmit HIV or hepatitis to you through dirty syringes? I really, really hope you do. I'm sure your holy gods Market Forces and Consumer Choice make those things much safer in those countries than our oppressive American regulation.
Sheepshowable 1 year ago 2
@Sheepshowable
we're advocating private regulation, not chaos.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
This is so fucking retarded it beggars belief.
Glopdemon 1 year ago
Orwell would be turning over in his grave to see a smug little shit like you attacking the agencies that keep us from dying of typhoid or bad drugs instead of the police state your country is becoming and using his words no less. This whole thing reeks of whiny teenage libertarian shortsightedness. As if a Mcdonalds cheeseburger wasn't bad enough for you already without people in charge of making sure it doesn't kill or or isn't too filled with insect segments.
Timmah420 1 year ago
@Timmah420 well said! I could not agree more. Let some of these brats get e coli from their food, or watch a loved one die from a defective product. Then they will cry like little girls and hold their breath until the government does something!
dig812 1 year ago
@dig812 Isn't that the same little dirt bag from "How the World Works" ?
dig812 1 year ago
There are regulations that ensure people do all they have agreed to do. This makes lawful societies possible.
Then there are regulations that force people to do things they would not have agreed to do. This burdens lawful societies until they fail.
This is the most important distinction to make, and no one should let a discussion of regulation pass without addressing WHICH type of "regulation" is being discussed. Failure to do so results in damage from bad deregulation AND bad regulation.
juice797 1 year ago
Simply incredible that libertarians don't realize how differently this video is seen by most Americans. Instead of feeling terrified by the bureaucracy and living in horror of the dire implications, most of us easily notice that every regulation mentioned here delivers a high value at a low cost. Hyperventilating about Big Brother is embarrassingly ahistorical.
unclvinny 1 year ago 2
UL, a (mostly) non-profit laboratory recognized by OSHA.
grolgh 1 year ago
@grolgh
thank you. finally someone with some sense!!
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
@oiuoiu988 However, OSHA is federal agency. So they are regulating UL more than UL actually does any regulation by themselves. The importance difference is that UL is more of a developer/tester of regulation rather than an enforcer, and they have to be certified themselves. Sadly OSHA is too much in the pocket of the industry. IMO, your suggestion to make private companies do all the regulation either opens for toothless enforcement or that they allowed to dictate code and use violence.
grolgh 1 year ago 2
@grolgh
my point is that UL is better as a private company than it would be if it were a government agency. you demonstrate my point by noting that government regulatory agencies tend to end up in the pocket of the largest firms in the industry they attempt to regulate. to say that osha is doing more work or more regulation that UL would be a gross misrepresentation of the situation. UL is not even certified by OSHA, they are recognized by them.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago 2
All libertarians must die.
NIHILFUCKINGDEATH 1 year ago
@NIHILFUCKINGDEATH That's a little extreme. Just send them to Somalia, it's been a libertarian paradise for almost 20 years now.
Glopdemon 1 year ago
@Glopdemon
living standards in somalia went up after the collapse of the state, zimbabwe is a statist/democrat paradise and their living standards have plummeted over the same period of time.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
@oiuoiu988 provide empirical proof now or prove yourself the dumbest person to have ever lived.
Glopdemon 1 year ago
@Glopdemon
haha, like you cant just look it up.... or watch a video called stateless in somalia, im not sure if its on youtube but google it if its not on YT. look at the value of zimbabwe's currency over the last 20 years.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
You don't specifically need the government's permission to do much, however, companies need the government's permission to sell you toothpaste not laced with melamine, burgers that won't give you botulism, road signals that work, ATMs that don't steal your cash, etc, etc. So please, continue to rage against all of this government interference, because clearly, life would be a hell of a lot better in a true government interference-free country (Move to Somalia you dumb shits).
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InclineMusicGroup 1 year ago
My guess, w/ out gov. regulations (there are still laws) a voluntary service would have completely taken over. Kinda like reading reviews on Amazon, consumer reports etc., there may be "private business inspection" labels on products - if the consumer demands it. IMO, this would be cheaper than more-and-more regulatory departments as time goes on. We forget big-business supports regulations more than opposing them, since it raises production cost.
MovieTribute 1 year ago
ahahaha, 95%+ of the stuff that CEI whines about in this video are things that make life in the US safer, freer, happier and more prosperous for everybody
foolerrant 1 year ago 2
@foolerrant
and taxpayer money is WASTED ON IT. they are things that would work more efficiently with private regulation.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
Thanks for the reminder that common sense regulation saves lives!
boognish1975 1 year ago
@boognish1975 My money went to making sure a company had a "Warning, obvious coffee hot coffee is hot"
Now I have to spend more at that company just to make sure no one else gets burned by coffee
MY GOD DAM MONEY!!
Scotish223332 1 year ago
@Scotish223332 AHHHHH GOD DAMMIT I AM SO UPSET BY WARNING LABELS! UPSET I TELL YOU!
boognish1975 1 year ago
@boognish1975 BLAAAA!! RAGE!!! >:0 >:0
WHY ARE CAPS LOCKING?!?!?!
Scotish223332 1 year ago
Uh sorry you're not going to convince me that it's a bad thing the government checks to ensure I'm not sold dangerous products and poisoned food. How stupid do you think we are? Yeah make safety regulations even more lax whats the worse that could happen? a giant oil spill?
Thespartan18 1 year ago
If you don't like these regulations, you can always, you know, get the fuck out of the U.S.?
MassiveLemon 1 year ago
These are the same conservative who want the government to strip Americans of their citizenship because America is a "battlefield". Meanwhile, this idiot doesn't want the government to keep Kraft from using asbestos in his cereal.
AndyITALY07 1 year ago 2
competitive enterprise institute is funded by companies like Exxon Mobil (oil company), Phillip Morris (Tobacco, cigarette company), Pfizer (drug company).
Who side do you think these people are on?
00RM7 1 year ago 2
@00RM7
not the governments side, until you realize that history has been a struggle between man and state you just wont understand. democracy is like some religion to you idiots.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
LIFE WITHOUT REGULATION---
1. thousands of Chinese die building the railroads.
2. thousands of Irish die building the railroads.
3. Coal miners die daily while C.W. Frick got millions.
4.Striking workers shot to death in Homestead, Pa. by hired thugs for A. Carnegie.
5. 12 year olds worked to death in factories.
6. Asbestos in everything, killed my father, citizens of Libby, Montana.
7.Greedy few on wall street rape the middle class. (2008)
8. W.R Grace company gives children cancer.
MrYoubrian 1 year ago
@MrYoubrian Life with regulation;
1. Tax increases because people have no common sense
2. Stupid people continue to do stupid things because the living ones sue the hell out of the company and continue to encourage people to do more stupid things
3. Many removed from homes or but cloths or food because of minor and usually indictable amounts of 'lead'
4.Everything becomes offensive and every small thing becomes as sacred as the holy bible (nanny state allies)
5. Forbin Project people -.-
Scotish223332 1 year ago
Good video! We DO take all these regulatory agencies for granted.
roboknob 1 year ago
It's odd to see capitalists quote George Orwell, a dedicated socialist who was a member of a Marxist militia during the Spanish Civil War.
I've seen a lot of this lately. The other day Glenn Beck condemned socialism and unions, and then glorified MLK, saying that we ought to embrace his principles. Well, MLK was a socialist, and he was in Memphis (where he was assassinated) to support striking union workers.
beneaththediamondsky 1 year ago
"the only reason companies DON'T put rat feces in hot dogs is because of GOVERNMENT REGULATION"
gee, I thought it was because NO ONE WOULD BUY hot dogs with rat feces, but maybe some people like that sort of thing... thank god the govt is there to save them from themselves and their rat-poop-eating tendencies.
juice797 1 year ago
@juice797 "gee, I thought it was because NO ONE WOULD BUY hot dogs with rat feces, but maybe some people like that sort of thing". You're right. People wouldn't but hot dogs if there was rat feces in them. But people wouldn't know if there were rat feces in them (since hot dogs get ground up) without GOVERNMENT REGULATION. Jeez.
kashford0927 1 year ago
@kashford0927 Well, because of government regulation, your hot dog will now cost extra money to check to see if there is rat-feces in hot dogs.
And no one in a business would sell you a hot dog with rat-feces in it -.- (unless they REALLY like it)
Scotish223332 1 year ago
@Scotish223332 "Well, because of government regulation, your hot dog will now cost extra money to check to see if there is rat-feces in hot dogs."
As opposed to the money I pay (or lose) from getting sick?
"And no one in a business would sell you a hot dog with rat-feces in it -.- (unless they REALLY like it)"
Right. And no business would dump toxic waste into rivers, or put lead paint on children's toys or... or... or....
kashford0927 1 year ago
@kashford0927 Lead paint does what? Which toxic waist are you talking about. . . .and so on and so forth.
Think about it this way;
The government regulates the food you eat
You can no longer buy food like pizza or even fruit because of (insert made up or over-hyped chemical here)
The business can sell the food, but now you must pay big bucks just to simply eat that food
Also, no one has gotten sick unless they ate WAY to much, or if the place is a obvious death trap -.-
Scotish223332 1 year ago
Wow, transactions and daily routines are going so smoothly even with all this government oversight! I guess the people claiming that the government ruins everything are full of bullshit!
That's the point of this commercial, right? I mean, it can't possibly be trying to convince us that our day-to-day life is a nightmarish hellscape because "OH NO THE GUBMINT."
IcauriceDeauxnim 1 year ago
Yeah. Let's take away all the regulations that way we can be like Mexico.
sergiodidthis 1 year ago
Awesome
NevadaPolicyRI 1 year ago
Next up, a ban on transporting propane cylinders in old Pathfinders. Wait and see.
juniorjer 1 year ago
STOP SAYING UNDERWRITERS' LABORATORIES REGULATES STUFF. They have no--none--regulatory powers. They do safety testing purely so that companies can get insurance and prove compliance with regulatory processes. That's it
kborchers1 1 year ago
@kborchers1
haha, now its regulatory powers??? they have regulatory powers, governments send samples of their water to this PRIVATE COMPANY and recognize the authority of the UL in inspection and testing. a stateless society would most likely be based on a web of contracts, insurance AND other types of contracts. i'm glad youre starting to recognize how society can be regulated without violence.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
that's really cool!
BlueSkies360 1 year ago
Also, thanks for proving how essential governmental regulation is to ensure the safety of our citizens.
BeavisSaves 1 year ago
End regulation! Bring back child labor! Abolish the weekend! Bring back x-rays for shoe fitting! Let McDonalds put in mad cow tainted brains in their burgers! Replace the asbestos in my house!
DONT GIVE UP YOUR FREEDOM!!!!
BeavisSaves 1 year ago
@BeavisSaves
and nationalize the underwriters laboratories because they regulate more products for safety than government! totalitarianism ftw!
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
George Orwell was a Socialist.
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Willatron 1 year ago
The government ensuring products are safe for human consumption?? no!! no!!!! NO!!!!! NO SOCIALEST!!
DroneFragger 1 year ago
i too am against Food Regulations
itchcity 1 year ago
Ahaha look at this disnenguous trash. "General Mills can't sell me cereal made of broken glass" = "I NEED PERMISSION TO WIPE MY OWN ASS! WHAT A TERRIFYING STATE OF AFFAIRS!"
You don't give a flying fuck about me or even the actor you hired to represent me. You care about your members' expenses for regulatory compliance. Don't try to sell that to me as fucking altruism, scumbags.
vapidkunst 1 year ago 2
are you seriously against the minimum drinking age and food regulations because holy shit lol
homologygroup 1 year ago
@homologygroup
are you really 11 years old?
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
Oh no, BIG GOVERNMENT doesn't let me sell my bathtub vodka to minors! Truly a case of regulation mania!
mrgbyt 1 year ago
This video is red meat for those who don't really think much. "ZOMG! Government regulation = BAD!" To people like that, I want to ask, "How much rat feces do you like in your hot dogs?"
kashford0927 1 year ago
@kashford0927
or for people who understand the inherent feedback mechanisms that regulate voluntary human action... government regulation actually CAUSES people to not have to think or calculate. thats part of the reason people like you are so ignorant that you think were against regulation...
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
@kashford0927 You must be a rat fecie yourself. Oh, or a government worker
BlueSkies360 1 year ago
@BlueSkies360 Nope. Just someone who educated who engages in critical thinking.
kashford0927 1 year ago
@FangedRabbit
hes making fun of stupid people
Track14 1 year ago
Every single one of those things labeled as being regulated should obviously be regulated. Indeed, there were plenty of things in those shots that were *not* under federal regulation, and which obviously should be. The idiotic leading questions are all trivially answerable with "No", so overall the message is stupid and self-defeating.
pointym5 1 year ago
The HSE is in the UK, idiots.
EvilEuropean 1 year ago
Oh, now that I've seen your website I understand: It's a think-tank for retards. How nice! It's good that the handicapable have jobs, though I worry that you're being manipulated since your funding is apparently not one of those things you care to be honest about. Go fuck yourselves.
kborchers1 1 year ago
Thanks for pointing out all the vital work our government does for us.
dougsha 1 year ago
great video! well done!
whynotflip 1 year ago
I love that all of these regulatory agencies exist so my mattress isn't stuffed with things that will kill me, that my toothpaste and milk won't poison me, that the phone system works properly, that workplaces must at least provide some measure of security and safety for their employees.
How cool it is that we live in a country that is not only looking out for us as individuals but provides protections for free speech that lets you guys make videos to prove how moronic you are! Yay!
kborchers1 1 year ago
@kborchers1
if you think we're against regulation youre an idiot. the difference between you and us is that YOU arent smart enough to understand the reasons why private regulatory agencies work better than government regulatory agencies. you just havent read enough about economics to understand why monopolies necessarily become disconnected from the consumer of their services. you are ignorant to the inherent feedback mechanisms that REGULATE voluntary human action.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
@oiuoiu988 Ummm...look, if I spent all my time arguing with the mildly retarded on the internet, I'd never get anything done. Get a chin implant and take care of your haircut and you'll get laid and won't sit around jerking off worrying about the FDA.
kborchers1 1 year ago
@kborchers1
i have no idea what thats supposed to mean but you pretty much admitted you cant defend your position. thanks for playing. p.s. i'm married with kids.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
@oiuoiu988 Defend my position? My position is simply that I enjoy the protections of the regulations of the state. I'm sorry you apparently suck at getting your point across, but running around and calling other people morons and idiots because they don't understand what you didn't say is a symptom of your disease.
kborchers1 1 year ago
@kborchers1
so are you saying you are against the private regulations that you enjoy the benefits of??? maybe you should move to another country where they dont have private regulatory agencies regulating their products? the point is not that we are anti-regulation you fool, its that private regulators operate far more efficiently than government regulators and they somehow manage to get paid for only by the people who use them and, get this, its on a VOLUNTARY BASIS!!!
amazing isnt it?
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
also of note, i use to be a leftist... dont tell me i dont understand what you idiots think.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
@oiuoiu988 Yes, we get it: Everyone who disagrees with you is a leftist and an idiot. Play a different song.
kborchers1 1 year ago
@oiuoiu988 Voluntary regulation! Wow! Nothing could go wrong with that! You're everything that's wrong with capitalism. It's not a one-size fits all solution, but since you have the intellectual horsepower of a Yugo, you'll never understand that.
kborchers1 1 year ago
@kborchers1
underwriters labarotories, a private corporation, regulates and inspects more of the products you use every day than the government does.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
@oiuoiu988 UL doesn't "regulate" anything, dipshit. They do inspect products, but that's not regulation. And there's no requirement for anything to have UL listing. Companies use UL to obtain underwriting for insurance purposes (hence the "underwriter's" part.) Disingenuous fucktard.
kborchers1 1 year ago
@kborchers1
that IS regulation dumbass... this private company is why you dont bring your alarm clock in the bathtup with you!!!
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
@oiuoiu988 No, I don't bring my alarm clock into the bathtub because I'm an engineer and understand how electricity works. UL is not regulation because there's no requirement for anything to have a UL listing. It's also incredibly expensive. But you can have your little party of stupid. God help us if you ever get your way.
kborchers1 1 year ago
@kborchers1
god help us if we ever figure out a way to solve our problems without using violence, right? you'll have to excuse me, ive never studied electricity and thats why i always shower with my alarm clock and my hair dryer... ive died like 65 times already.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
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@oiuoiu988 Wow, you are the master of keeping your head up your ass. I've managed to keep myself and my companies in regulatory compliance for two decades now without ever feeling "threatened." Maybe you should actually get a real job because (a)as an internet pundit, you suck, and (b) you need experience in what regulation actually is.
kborchers1 1 year ago
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@oiuoiu988 yeah, private regulation did wonders for the financial industry in 2008. did wonders for the meat industry in the 1920s too.
You people are idiots.
Zealed 1 year ago
@Zealed
haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha, no youre right, the government wasnt the problem in 2008..... lolololololololololol moron.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
@Zealed The financial institutions did not cause the crisis, but low interest rates, set by Obama and affirmative action lending required by Obama..
BlueSkies360 1 year ago
@BlueSkies360 Obama wasn't president when the financial crisis happened. Nice try. You're an idiot and you keep proving it everytime your fingers touch your keyboard.
kborchers1 1 year ago
@kborchers1 I am sorry, but while Obama is in the office the rates have not changed. The bad policies continue
BlueSkies360 1 year ago
@BlueSkies360 So what you're saying is that we need more regulation? I couldn't agree more.
kborchers1 1 year ago
@kborchers1 you are saying that. I want government out of interest rate regulations completely
BlueSkies360 1 year ago
@BlueSkies360 Go read a financial history of the US during the 19th Century, with the attendant panics and depressions every 5 years or so, and then when you're done, read some financial history. We went SEVENTY years without a major panic. Within 10 years of undoing those protections, we had one. Coincidence?
kborchers1 1 year ago
@kborchers1
yea, our economy was great in the 70's... government has manged to fuck up the economy from 1930-1946 and from 1969-1983 and now from 07-??? thats 36 of the last 81 years that "we the people" have had to suffer because our government tries to control our economy. 36 out of 81 years and NPR has you convinced everything was fine all along... all i have to say is hahahahahahaha!
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
@oiuoiu988 We went for 70 years without a financial panic or depression. You can twist what I said however you want, but the facts still speak for themselves. Get a life. I'm done talking with you, you lying sack of shit.
kborchers1 1 year ago
@kborchers1
yea, the facts i mentioned speak for your fallacious interpretations. so stagflation is ok with you?? the death of your currency?? maybe you should move to zimbabwe!
good riddance.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
@oiuoiu988 You seem to be having problems with "go fuck yourself." You are a liar. Your wife must be so proud. "My husband lies for a living on the internet! " You're a scuzzy lying sack of shit. Manipulate what I said all you want, but it was ***deregulation*** that led to this current mess, and we went SEVENTY YEARS without a panic of depression.
kborchers1 1 year ago
@kborchers1
haha, saying it over and over again makes it more true.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
Great video!
SpraginsforSenate 1 year ago
yes, by all means, keep lead in my tap water. this is the stupidest thing i've ever seen.
strusc 1 year ago
@strusc
youre retarded. its a good thing the people running the country arent as dumb as you because city water works' are a GREAT example of a service that is being privatized all over the world because of the evidence that private companies serve the consumer better than government.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
Hey that guy is Lee Doren.
The only defense for these regulations is to say that government knows best. I'm not saying that other people know better, but the government has no incentive to do a good job regulating your life for you. If you care about something in your life, regulate it yourself! When you pay for the government to regulate your life for you, you pay for the government to regulate other people's lives too. If you want to be a mindless slave go ahead, but leave me out of it.
rockachopa 1 year ago
@rockachopa Why is it then that FDA stops so many drugs from reaching the market because of side effects? If they have no incentive to help us, why do they bother to do the testing?
gensu3k1 1 year ago
@gensu3k1 The drugs should be on the market though, if they can possibly help people. Just put the side effects on the label and let the person decide what they want to buy or medicate themselves with.
And I said they have no incentive to do a good job. It is so expensive to do FDA testing that it sometimes people can't even afford to get a drug that is good and works to be FDA approved. The FDA loses nothing if they don't approve good drugs.
rockachopa 1 year ago
@rockachopa but drug companies don't always disclose the side effects of their drugs, nor do they always do proper testing of them.
Sure, we could allow them to put out products and hope the fear of lawsuits is enough, but we could end up with deaths in the interim.
gensu3k1 1 year ago
@gensu3k1
corporatism, barriers to entry.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
@rockachopa NO the defense is that businesses have very little incentive to do what's right or what's fair. Before government stepped it, there was no overtime, no benefits, no workers comp, no child labor laws, water was contaminated, the streets of your average city were covered in dung, urine, vomit. Landlords raised the rent whenever they wanted to, many buildings were firetraps. Pick up a history book. We've already seen what happens when we leave it up to businesses, people die.
punkzanyj 1 year ago
@punkzanyj
business' depend on voluntary action (in the absence of government intervention) government depends on coercive action. its just that simple, an institution that gets all of its money from stealing has no incentive to please the victim of said theft.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
@punkzanyj
and if you dont understand why history books are all written by leftist ideologues you should familiarize yourself with the work of murray rothbard.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago