ET>GC>Restrictions never STOP anything. But they sure do make certain
ET>GC>practices less prevalent and increase your chances of survival
ET>GC>tremendously.
ET>        I'd like that if it *were* true.  Unfortunately, it's just a
ET>        comforting little mantra.  Watch the restaurant inspection
ET>        reports on the news once in a while, and you'll realize just how
ET>        many places don't meet health department guidelines and only
ET>        *temporarily* change their practices when they get a bad
ET>        evaluation.  (Of course, this assumes they don't simply bribe
ET>        the inspectors.)
But it doesn't take a whole lot of imagination to see how much worse
things would be without the inspections.
ET>GC>I can't wait until I'm poisoned to find out if I should go
ET>GC>to a restaurant or not.
ET>        Neither can I.  That's why I keep an ear out for reports of
ET>        people who get sick from food at restaurants and don't go to
ET>        places with a reputation for unhealthy food.
Well, I don't want to wait until someone else is poisoned either.
ET>GC>This is the kind of thing we hire politicians to do.
ET>        And then, later, wonder why they didn't magically fix it.
Sometimes.
ET>GC>I don't know? Can you think of any reasons? Can you think of any labor
ET>GC>worth .50 cents an hour?
ET>        Labor that produced just enough value to the employer to justify
ET>        such a low wage would be vanishingly rare.
It would be quite prevalent if paying higher wages weren't forced upon
them.
ET>        Yeah, when you have a plentiful supply of workers you can afford
ET>        to treat like expendibles, and the government actually works to
ET>        unconstitutionally prevent those workers from unionizing and
ET>        taking other measures to protect their rights
Yes. The injustice of which was much more common in times past then it
is now.
ET>GC>They do lead to recurrent revolutions and the consequent lose of
ET>GC>many lives - in the name of freedom and fairness - but the actual
ET>GC>goals are never fully reached, and then only temporarily.
ET>        And I challenge you to identify a single country with a free and
ET>        open economic market (as opposed to one with groups and
ET>        individuals favored by the government getting all the money)
ET>        that had such a revolution. (But I think we might better take
That would be a bit hard to do as no such country ever existed.
ET>GC>Come on, Eric. Naturally, this could be continued on into nebulous gray
ET>GC>areas to the point where both of us would get lost in the murk, but it
ET>GC>seems rather pointless.
ET>        You've already dragged us DEEP into there.
Awww. All I want is the V-chip....
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