Comments by "Debany Doombringer" (@debanydoombringer1385) on "" video.
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There's nothing you can do about ponzi schemes. The government currently doesn't prevent them. It only comes in after the damage has been done. Look at Madoff, who ran one for decades. Transportation safety isn't laws. It's regulations. The majority of those regulations are 40 years old or less. Just the idea that they're somehow a necessity when they're fairly new is odd. The only one that's a law is wearing a seat belt, which again is fairly new and falls on the operator. Not the car company. Before all the regulations, they'd just be sued if there was a known issue. Once that happened a few times, they started doing recalls and repairs once something bad was reported. Which is why you don't see lawsuits today. It has nothing to do with the government.
Food safety was only put in to increase confidence in grocery stores, like the USDA. Before everyone purchased directly from the farmer or the local store said what farm their stock came from. Most of the regulations were put in place by the lobbiest for the company that created the product to limit competition. Heinz, for example, lobbied the government to put in sanitary regulations for bottling because ketchup became popular. Lots of knockoffs hit the shelves quickly with varying degrees of pricing. The cheapest had sawdust, for example (which is still found in foods today). The cheaper a product was, the lower the quality, which again is still true today. So Heinz sent a lobbiest to DC, scared the politicians, they made regulations, and the cheaper options were immediately removed from competition. The same thing happened with Coke. The idea they're there to protect you isn't true. They're there to raise the barrier for competition. Just look into what the USDA allows in your meat, and you'll understand that. Though I warn you, you might not want to buy any ever again if you do.
A good example of the market doing its job is chicken. People didn't want antibiotics and some wanted free range. The market responded and now those are all readily available. A prime example of customers demanding change without the government stepping in to force it.
Edit: Also, look at just a few years ago with outbreaks of salmonella poisoning from bagged lettuce. All those regulations didn't prevent it.
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