is plaster bread low calorie
Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them...
toadjones79@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Bleach, actually. A small amount of bleach added to spoiled milk makes it taste brand new. The government actually suggested this in a few countries for a while.
Plaster in flour was common enough that after the miller, the middle men, and then the baker all added a cut, there were loaves being sold with less than 20% flour in them. The result was mass malnutrition.
Also, and this is a spicy one but backed by basic economics, regulations are a required element to capitalism. The notion that deregulation is pro capitalism is a misinterpretation of the idea that markets are self regulating. A free market is one that is free of corruption and unfair business practices. Which cannot exist without regulations and the enforcement of those regulations. All our current economic woes are the result of straying away from proven economic theory (mostly deregulation) to the right allowing the corruption of the marketplace and emergence of a strong oligarchy.
3dmvr@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Ramenator@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Technically. The constipation would probably balance out the weight loss though
Bgugi@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Shitting bricks.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Saw dust was also added to flour. Various heavy metals would be added to food to enhance their color.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Also added to grated Parmesan.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That’s cellulose, not sawdust, and it’s added to this day in all sprinkle cheeses so they dont stick together. Cellulose isn’t a problem to eat. Sawdust is.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That second paragraph is a pretty concise explanation on why ancaps and their ideas are stupid.
AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 5 days ago
A free market is one that is free of corruption and unfair business practices. Which cannot exist without regulations and the enforcement of those regulations.
And the truth is that the oligarchs, the established players in the game of capitalism, do not want a free market. They want a market with the illusion of freedom. A free market like the one you describe is, in fact, a true free market. Because then they have to actually compete with new players. Players who don’t come from the same backgrounds as the established players. Who may have different beliefs, who might not have the same skin color. Who may have a superior product or service to one or more of the established players. Who are free to sit at the same tables as oligarchs and take up space because their government gives them the power to do so. De regulation gives the illusion of a market being free, by making it so that if you want to be a new player in the game, you can, but unless you pay obeisance to the top players, you’re not getting very far. Plus the top players will buy you out, which is essentially them bribing you to walk away from the table.
toadjones79@lemm.ee 2 days ago
That’s why an oligarchy is NOT the same thing as capitalism. You cannot have a free market if an oligarchy exists. Additionally, the four foundations principles of capitalism are
- The right to own property and work for your own well being.
- The right to own the profits of your labora, after modest taxation.
- Laws and regulations to prevent corruption.
- The enforcement of those laws and regulations.
SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 5 days ago
I’ll go extra-spicy and point out that there’s no such thing as “ownership” as we know it without government. Legal-wonkishly, ownership is enforceable, transferrable, exclusive title to property. I can “own” land that I’m only physically present on for a few days per year because my name is on a piece of paper in a file cabinet in a government office, and it’s backed up by a court system and police force that’s constituted and willing to enforce my title.
I just mention it because a lot of the deregulation whiners are the same people as the “taxation is theft” whiners.
toadjones79@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Oh boy. You struck gold here.
The US Constitution is the highest form of trade pact. That is all the federal government exists for, is to facilitate trade. Catching murderers, building roads, investing in education, stopping infectious disease… All there to keep us working, buying, and trading goods and services because without that whole segments of society starve and start wars.
I love how dumb the anti-taxation argument is because they have zero idea that they wouldn’t have any money, or jobs, without the government doing what it does with all that tax money.
Also, never forget that when you work for a wage you are selling your time. Looking at it that way changes how you feel about your life and job. It is 100% a choice that you make because the trade is worth the pay. If not, make yourself more valuable and get out. (It would take too long to explain how that works with disabilities and government aid).
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Also, and this is a spicy one but backed by basic economics, regulations are a required element to capitalism
Indeed the free market itself has demanded regulations. This is a free market, it has regulations because it is what was needed.
toadjones79@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Or, they balance the benefits of corrupt practices with equally detrimental (to the corrupt entity) costs. Making them less profitable than fair trade.
T156@lemmy.world 6 days ago
We’ve had numerous laws precisely because companies couldn’t play fair, and made things worse for all involved. The government didn’t pass laws against company towns, scrip, and predatory pricing because they decided to ban things for fun.