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crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 2 months agoAre consumer protections government waste?
Comment on Im thinking we still have a deeper bottom
crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 2 months agoAre consumer protections government waste?
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
They “are” for those people who are too stupid to understand that individual consumers don’t have the time, expertise, access to inside information on company processes and their own labs so that they don’t need to rely on regulators to make sure they’re not buying and consuming dangerous shit, and can do it all by themselves as individuals.
The “too stupid to understand regulators are there to do what individuals don’t have the time, expertise and power to do as individuals” neatly brings us around exactly to the point the OP was making.