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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (886213)	9/8/2015 11:51:31 PM
From: combjelly	2 Recommendations Recommended By gronieel2 tejek Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576179

You do know that he regards any regulation to be an undue burden on the marketplace? I don't remember him taking a stance on child labor, but allowing it would certainly be consistent with his other stances. Some of which you have enumerated. See, pollution wouldn't be a problem because people would research every product and every company. If the environment was important to them, they would only buy products from eco-safe producers. With everyone having the freedom to choose, the problems would sort themselves out. Likewise, if a company has unsafe working conditions, the employees have the freedom to choose to work somewhere else. And consumer have the freedom to not buy their products. So, somehow companies would be driven by the market to not pollute and have safe working conditions and well-compensated employees because... Well, things get a little vague at that point. You point out that we actually tried this for centuries and it didn't work. The FDA was created and the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed because companies were poisoning their customers. The straw that broke the camels back was when one company used a bit too much copper sulfate to dye their pickles a nice blue-green color. Come to find out, it just isn't possible for consumers to research every product and every company they deal with on a daily basis. As your link illustrates workers have limits to which they can pick and choose where to work. Especially if there is nothing like unemployment insurance, a concept I am certain Tim loathes, so that workers don't have to choose between starvation and taking any job, even if the odds of it killing them is very high. TimWorld is a very different, and much simpler place.