I too get frustrated. I think the thing that seperates people seems to be their level of trust in government and regulatory agencies. Certainly it has been a while since we've seen a good reason to trust them...
It's easy to become paranoid and follow that path to its logical conclusion that all government is bad.
It's also easy for people to be naive and trust that people in government will "do the right thing" (and their thinking for them).
Yes - all the government has is a hammer (regulation).
No - not all hammers are the same.
You're just stating the obvious in a twisted metaphor. Obviously not all regulation is good. It's not all bad/necessary/evil/* either. The debate is (or at least should be) on how to solve the problem, not whether or not to drop the hammer. In keeping with your metaphor - which kind of hammer do you use?
Why would I buy shares of a company that I "...don't like making money off the hard working backs of all those poor people..."?
I'd buy shares of their competitors if they weren't just as bad...
Do you think that the company who makes Singulair cares about you beyond keeping you alive long enough to extract the maximum amount of money from you that they can?
All they need, is for you to believe their drug is helping and continue buying it. Wether it actually is helping or not offers different pro's and con's for them either way.
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Most comments totally missed the point - while at the same time feeding it.
I too get frustrated. I think the thing that seperates people seems to be their level of trust in government and regulatory agencies. Certainly it has been a while since we've seen a good reason to trust them...
It's easy to become paranoid and follow that path to its logical conclusion that all government is bad.
It's also easy for people to be naive and trust that people in government will "do the right thing" (and their thinking for them).
Unfortunately, neither of these is the case...
We're witnessing entropy in its societal form.
Yes - all the government has is a hammer (regulation).
No - not all hammers are the same.
You're just stating the obvious in a twisted metaphor. Obviously not all regulation is good. It's not all bad/necessary/evil/* either. The debate is (or at least should be) on how to solve the problem, not whether or not to drop the hammer. In keeping with your metaphor - which kind of hammer do you use?
Why would I buy shares of a company that I "...don't like making money off the hard working backs of all those poor people..."?
I'd buy shares of their competitors if they weren't just as bad...
Do you think that the company who makes Singulair cares about you beyond keeping you alive long enough to extract the maximum amount of money from you that they can?
All they need, is for you to believe their drug is helping and continue buying it. Wether it actually is helping or not offers different pro's and con's for them either way.