• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Fuck consumers workers and the environment, more PROFITS baby!!

    For some reason Republicans can’t see that regulations tend to happen when companies fail to act responsibly in favor of profits.
    Deregulation of financial markets caused the financial crisis, because the markets exploited it for new “tricks”, that were irresponsible.
    Deregulation of consumer protections clearly harm consumers, and the same with environment.
    There are also standards regulations that stimulate competition, and greatly increase industry efficiency.

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      3 months ago

      We have regulations because, spoiler, things used to be unregulated and they fucked up enough people demanded the government set some fucking rules.

      The regulations weren’t in the founding documents of the country. They came to be as the industries started exploiting and killing people.

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      3 months ago

      Those morons hate regulations, but refuse to by foreign stuff because it “isn’t as safe and well made as American made”…you know, where we have tons of regulations…

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        3 months ago

        Not just that, they is an underlying racist bias to that. That Asian made products from overseas are cheap because they care less or have less pride in their work than American made. They think that we as Americans for some reason have a greater baseline pride that permeates through everything made here.