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Originally Posted by TheDoc
You could say those regs/subs helped pull us from the pits of hells corps had put us into before those regs came along.
You guys might want to read some history starting at about 50 years ago. Only the completely crazy and those people absent minded of history would want to get rid of most corp regs.
In theory - it sounds nice, in reality - the corps were monster and abusing power and crushing the competition decades BEFORE the regs came along.
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Yes, those big corp had been using act of aggression (murder, theft, armed gangs, pinkertons,...) for a long time before the regs came along. But those regs were not aimed at reducing the several forms of abuse committed by those corps. Those regs were aimed at making the life of the corps easier.
First nature preservation regs, national parks etc.... were paid for and lobbied for by big railway tycoons who didn't want small local railway companies to build connections between their local railways and thus become an alternative for the large transcontinental railways.
Banking regs: J.D. Rockefeller himself said that he did not like the free market. "Competition is a sin" he said. Why? Because competition drives down prices and increases the quality of the end products. Instead of competing the big corps chose to form governments enforced cartels. And guess who the bureaucrats were who got to oversee everything? yes, people from those same big corps.