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Deregulate ALL the THINGS!

The rest will follow.
You Greenies talk about how expensive Oil is the only way you can Greenovate. But then at the same time those high Oil prices place a 30 to 40% premium on the production to market of any goods that comes from it.
Then there's so many regulations that big business verticals have lobbied to place on manufacturing. That small business start ups have a hard time to compete, or get a leg up in those businesses.

Regulation has become a hindrance and not a protection of anything but Corporate profits.

Everything is centralized because of the regulation, and the Government picking winners in industries, to be their industry crony.

How many of us cook our own dinners?

Call it Crazy says

John Bailo says

How many of us cook our own dinners?

We do... why?

And do you grow your own food? Raise your own beef?

Because that's decentralization.

Mr Happygoluckofus says

Deregulate ALL the THINGS!

Everything is centralized because of the regulation, and the Government picking winners in industries, to be their industry crony.

Hey idiot. None of those companies are regulated. Anyone can start a search engine or a social media site. Regulation did not cause the concentration of power.

Mr Happygoluckofus says

Then there's so many regulations that big business verticals have lobbied to place on manufacturing. That small business start ups have a hard time to compete, or get a leg up in those businesses.

this is actually true.

many and maybe even most regulations selectively favor larger businesses that can cope with the regulations. they are hobbles on smaller businesses.

not that we should not have sensible regulations, but the number and arbitrariness of them is a reflection of our lobbying system more than anything else. if you can prevent competition, with regulation, then you don't have to worry about making great products.

Dan8267 says

None of those companies are regulated. Anyone can start a search engine or a social media site. Regulation did not cause the concentration of power.

yes, some of these things are just natural monopolies. a social media site's value is proportional to the number of people on it, so it tends to come down to just one. search is less natural of a monopoly, but you have limited room in your brain for search websites. so you'll probably just pick one and use it, and it will probably be the one everyone else is using.

Dan8267 says

None of those companies are regulated. Anyone can start a search engine or a social media site. Regulation did not cause the concentration of power.

yes, some of these things are just natural monopolies. a social media site's value is proportional to the number of people on it, so it tends to come down to just one. search is less natural of a monopoly, but you have limited room in your brain for search websites. so you'll probably just pick one and use it, and it will probably be the one everyone else is using.

I don't mind companies becoming big as long as they don't pull up the ladder after them, which most companies do. To Google's credit, they were for net neutrality, although I think that's because they don't own much of the infrastructure. If Google becomes a dominate ISP, will it still support net neutrality?

Decentralizing doesn't always lead to improvment, plenty of local corruption there too. The only saving grace is morality, which is decaying anyway.

Yeah, because back when southerners kept slaves and rape the slave children, America was far more moral.

https://joshketry.substack.com/p/decentralize-everything-in-1776-america

Dan8267 says

Hey idiot. None of those companies are regulated. Anyone can start a search engine or a social media site. Regulation did not cause the concentration of power.

No, the government did.

This was done by funding these companies early, and then constantly promoting them in the press, which is just state propaganda. The companies were all infiltrated by intelligence agencies, and they all have government contracts which are contingent on doing what they are told to do.

Outsiders, like Parler, are destroyed if they can be. Amazon deleted all their data within a 24 hour period, because they were running on AWS. This is restraint of trade, but the government won't do anything. Apple and Google will start refusing to install software on the phone, but you can get around that by just using web assembly.