• Can you get through a working day without a burning unneeded desire to regulate yet another thing that shouldn’t be regulated?

    The amount of stuff governments are already regulating is, like, 5000% of what actually should be regulated. The remaining stuff can get by with the 20% of the existing regulation. And don’t even begin to play the game of regulating private education into shape when what you need is a working public one.

    • You won’t win this one here. Lemmy is disappointingly facebook-like in terms of their seemingly endless desire to be told what to do every step of their lives.

      I realise the numbers are sort of made up, but in general I fully agree. I do sometimes think that politicians regulate for the sake of it, as if justifying their existence.

      • Lemmy is disappointingly facebook-like in terms of their seemingly endless desire to be told what to do every step of their lives.

        I would be surprised if that was actually the case. most of the visitors are here because they got fed up with reddit’s decisions.

        What makes you think that way?

    •  Cethin   ( @Cethin@lemmy.zip ) 
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      I would call myself an Anarchist. You’re the stupid person people think of when they hear the word, and it’s sad. Government regulation is absolutely required to protect people from losing power. Power structures are generally bad, which is why we need government to prevent them from forming in the background. When this doesn’t happen then people lose power because their options are removed so others can profit off of them easier.