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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • Are you kidding me? No area benefits from deregulation?

    Regulation in a lot of areas is put in as a protection to businesses already in the space to help alleviate competition. Is Charter/Comcast is out there pushing for deregulation so that small cities and communities can come in and setup their own cheaper broadband services, or are they fighting it tooth and nail?

    Does my barber actually need a license to cut hair? Sure you could argue that the barber is technically more hygienic, but that isn’t always the case… it’s just another way to make it harder for me to open up a competing barbershop.


  • I’ll agree that is A problem, but not the only problem.

    • Nimbyism
    • Building laws
    • licensing laws
    • zoning

    Those things also add to the exorbitant cost of housing. It’s not investors who are causing houses to cost 300 a square foot in my city, it’s lack of buildable land, contractor availability, licensing, residential zoning laws. All those things equal cost… some of those things could be fixed with less regulation.





  • In all fairness. The USA has some fucking gnarly terrain and is sparsely populated.

    Sending out a chopper team to get you off a cliff face isn’t cheap and is completely self inflicted, so I kinda get why they charge you for that.

    Getting cancer on the other hand, shouldn’t bankrupt you.