The dire predictions of economic disaster and stagnating innovation have not for the most part come true when society has stepped in to regulate abuses like child labor, food adulteration, inhumane treatment of workers. Rather, progress has on the whole accelerated.
Yup. Because Moore's Law has nothing to do with it. Just forget the fact that better technology allows more discoveries to be made, which allows even better technology, which allows even more discoveries...
Of course, progressive policies do hurt many exploitative enterprises, but they don't harm innovation.
Wrong on two accounts. One, you haven't looked at the case for nuclear power. It was cleaner, better, more efficient, etc. But people were scared, so they put down progressive and liberal policies where no nuclear power plants would be built. Can't have nuclear waste running around, killing our deserts, right? The other is this: when you increase the cost of doing business, the economy suffers. People are laid off, prices go up, etc. When that happens, it's MUCH harder for entrepreneurs to start a business. Can't buy the materials you need without money. Problem is, you need to ship out trash. A company in another country offers to take it from you for a small fee. Yet some of that money is going to the government for the sole purpose of helping others build ways of charging you MORE money to get rid of the stuff you create. Besides, since when is America the police of the world? Every time we go in to help, the world claims we are doing it wrong, or are tyrants.
In other words, let them clean up their own mess. They offered to take it at a cost to themselves and the companies took it. So to make up for China's mistake, we should punish the companies for making good business decisions? That's a good way to get companies to move their HQ to another country. Which is bad for tax money. Because even 1% of $1 billion gross income is still $10 million...
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The dire predictions of economic disaster and stagnating innovation have not for the most part come true when society has stepped in to regulate abuses like child labor, food adulteration, inhumane treatment of workers. Rather, progress has on the whole accelerated.
Yup. Because Moore's Law has nothing to do with it. Just forget the fact that better technology allows more discoveries to be made, which allows even better technology, which allows even more discoveries...
Of course, progressive policies do hurt many exploitative enterprises, but they don't harm innovation.
Wrong on two accounts. One, you haven't looked at the case for nuclear power. It was cleaner, better, more efficient, etc. But people were scared, so they put down progressive and liberal policies where no nuclear power plants would be built. Can't have nuclear waste running around, killing our deserts, right? The other is this: when you increase the cost of doing business, the economy suffers. People are laid off, prices go up, etc. When that happens, it's MUCH harder for entrepreneurs to start a business. Can't buy the materials you need without money. Problem is, you need to ship out trash. A company in another country offers to take it from you for a small fee. Yet some of that money is going to the government for the sole purpose of helping others build ways of charging you MORE money to get rid of the stuff you create. Besides, since when is America the police of the world? Every time we go in to help, the world claims we are doing it wrong, or are tyrants. In other words, let them clean up their own mess. They offered to take it at a cost to themselves and the companies took it. So to make up for China's mistake, we should punish the companies for making good business decisions? That's a good way to get companies to move their HQ to another country. Which is bad for tax money. Because even 1% of $1 billion gross income is still $10 million...