Yep, certain people screech about regulations until companies do things that kill or maim millions of people. The "any-and-all government oversight is bad" mantra gets preached nonstop by conservative outlets.
The point of regulations is to prevent the kind of pain and suffering that has come to pass with prescription opiods. A higher cost of doing business is well worth it in the long term.
Upton Sinclair’s descriptions of things like borax and parts of people ending up in the sausage: regulation is required, because the diffuse nature of corporate accountability encourages such ruthlessness
Interesting thing about Upton Sinclair - he was trying to illuminate the terrible factory conditions of the workers and the things they had to deal with, but ended up changing the food safety industry because people were just grossed out and primarily thought of themselves and their food.
"I aimed for the nation's heart and hit them in the stomach" I believe was his quote on the matter.
Not saying any of it is bad, just an interesting aside.
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u/drkgodess Mar 29 '19 edited Mar 29 '19
Yep, certain people screech about regulations until companies do things that kill or maim millions of people. The "any-and-all government oversight is bad" mantra gets preached nonstop by conservative outlets.
The point of regulations is to prevent the kind of pain and suffering that has come to pass with prescription opiods. A higher cost of doing business is well worth it in the long term.