• morrowind@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    I mean it’s a free market, it’s not reasonable nor desirable to proactively prohibit all possible bad scenarios

    edit: to anyone downvoting, read carefully

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      11 months ago

      I read your comment carefully and still downvoted because its an incredibly dumb thing to say.

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          11 months ago

          I bet you downvote this!

          Edit: shit! I meant to say “won’t!” I bet you won’t downvote this!

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          11 months ago

          I only said that because I’m pretty sure 99% of the people here agree with me, you included but are downvoting as a kneejerk reaction.

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            11 months ago

            There’s never a scenario on the internet where 99% of people agree with you…unless you’re just talking to yourself. Just let it go, not like you lose anything with downvotes.

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            11 months ago

            Then you have expressed yourself poorly and have made no effort to correct that.

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            11 months ago

            What the fuck do you think regulations are for? If we didn’t have them companies would skip crucial steps because they are expensive. Take Tesla for example, removing radar/lidar because of expense and they are bulky. But are nessesarry, shit they’re putting mics outside the car to listen for sirens.a

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      11 months ago

      I was just saying that as I was about to send my 6-year old out to the corner store to go buy some cigarettes for me, since our free market hasn’t imposed any restrictions on that transaction.

      Or if you look at the housing market specifically, in my area at least, I can’t buy a second home in the same area as an individual. I can buy investment properties that I’d need to rent out, but I’m forbidden from owning a second residence for myself.

      State, Local, and Federal lawmakers are constantly proactively prohibiting bad scenarios. And in this case, it wouldn’t even be proactive, it’s literally something that’s going on right now that needs corrected.

      Homes are for people.

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      11 months ago

      If allowing ordinary people to be priced out of owning homes is your idea of a free market, then fuck the free market.

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        11 months ago

        People are priced out of homes specifically because the market has been kneecapped by bad zoning policy.

        Homeowners got theirs and then pulled up the ladder

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      11 months ago

      It’s not a free market… that’s not an actual thing that can ever exist. It’s a state where the markets are in a perfect, frictionless state, where barriers of entry are non-existent and everyone has equal access to trade on the market… Ignoring petty things like needing to actually source things

      It is, in fact, both reasonable and desirable for the government to proactively watch and interfere in the markets before they enter a failure scenario, that’s their job in the market.

      It’s often willfully misunderstood, but what you’re describing is a half step from lasse faire capitalism. Which is the idea that a “free market” is a stable state, and we just need to let it settle long enough without interference. But that’s literally psuedoscience…