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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (921272)2/15/2016 2:17:58 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 1574573
 
>> In that case, freedom had a heart attack in 1887, with the birth of the ICC.

A strong argument can be made that the ICC and the related "Commerce Clause" ended some kinds of personal freedom (e.g., the freedom to grow marijuana for your own use because it would interfere with demand to be satisfied by purchases across state lines). This should be an example of an over-reaching law that even YOU can understand.

>> Of course; you are much more efficient when you hire 10 year old kids at $2/hr, without providing bennies or OT, and dump all your pollution in rivers and the sky because you don't have to meet any clean air/water standards. Everybody else gets screwed, but it sure is efficient.

Assuming, arguendo, there was a need for such regulation at one time, there certainly is not now. As an 8 year old I typed lunch menus in my dad's restaurant for 50c/hour. By the time I was ten or eleven, I was doing the weekly payroll. I was happy to get the money, he was glad to have the work done. And the benefit was I learned how to work for what I get. And I was able to make sense of financial statements long before I entered college.

Maybe, if you understood this, you would see the downside to over-regulation and understand how we ended up with these unemployed kids killing each other in Chicago on a daily basis.
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