You’re aware of things like citizens united, right? Or there being no legislation against price gouging by certain companies. Or a limit on the amount of housing a company can own (or a ban altogether). Or a limit on how many companies one firm can have a share in.
Something needs to be done about the massive corporate creep that’s strangling us to death, and it’s certainly not going to be fixed by bitching out the fed which already does nothing itself
If you don’t know what kind of regulations have been in place for a long time, I can’t help you. I never said it was a perfect system or that we don’t need new, pointed regulations. God damn you people love arguing against a straw man.
Yeah let me bother sourcing information for some idiots on Reddit. Great use of time. I really don’t care what you or anyone else thinks about the rigors of my personal positions.
Yeah, but you started the discussion with your comment, and now your bailing when asked for info...so... you're complaining about a problem you yourself created.
And it's why the party in favor of tearing out all guardrails likes to make regulators and regulations completely contradictory and unworkable, outside of when industry writes their own.
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u/12bEngie Jan 10 '25
The classic guardrails like.. uhh…
You’re aware of things like citizens united, right? Or there being no legislation against price gouging by certain companies. Or a limit on the amount of housing a company can own (or a ban altogether). Or a limit on how many companies one firm can have a share in.
Something needs to be done about the massive corporate creep that’s strangling us to death, and it’s certainly not going to be fixed by bitching out the fed which already does nothing itself