You make some really valid points about corporate exploitation and the ways regulations interact with global labor practices. I agree that a lot of the problem comes down to extremely wealthy individuals chasing profit at all costs—they often exploit gaps in regulation or weaker protections abroad rather than innovate responsibly at home.

When I talk about “overregulation,” I mean it broadly—safety, environmental, and financial. From my experience, some of those rules, while well-intentioned, made it cheaper and easier for companies to shift operations overseas rather than comply domestically. I’m not saying the rules themselves are bad, but the system doesn’t always balance worker protection with keeping industry viable in the U.S.

I get what you’re saying about tariffs—they’re not a perfect solution, and they won’t magically bring back manufacturing. My point is more that some form of economic pressure or policy to make domestic labor competitive again is necessary. Otherwise, you’re right—workers get forced to lower their standards to compete globally, and that just perpetuates exploitation rather than fixing it.

On billionaires, I agree completely. When a handful of people can accumulate that much wealth while dismantling the livelihoods of millions, the system is failing. I don’t have all the answers for that, but I think policies that make companies accountable for the human and economic cost of their decisions—whether through taxation, labor protections, or regulating how much CEOs can extract—would at least begin to address it.