Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "'May Be The Craziest Thing I've Ever Heard': Jim Jordan Blasts Democrats During House Hearing" video.

  1. 1:51 I'm on board with a lot of Jordan's fights, but go fuck yourself on this one. You are saying that if they were left to their own devices that the industry would have improved itself dramatically on its environmental impacts? Show me the evidence. All around the world, almost all environmental improvements have come due to government regulation. That forces companies to innovate. I like small government and all that, but when it comes to the environment, capitalism has consistently shown it desperately needs environmental regulation. The innovations don't come out of nowhere. The odd time something new will come out that was borne of a better, more efficient way of doing something that is better environmentally, but on the whole it's because of regulation. I'm so sick and fucking tired of people spouting off about how they hate regulation when in fact they rely on it constantly. Free-market capitalist are the worst for this. They bitch about the government bitch about the government bitch about the government, but then assemble a giant team of lawyers to protect their intellectual property, their patents, to protect themselves from slander and libel, to use contracts to force outlets into exclusivity deals etc. I just hate the disingenuous nature underpinning the arguments about regulation.
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