#regulations
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@chartier the capitalism we have is killing us anyway, but it’s nice not to eat chalk macaroni
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@chartier the curse of good government is that it is invisible, which leads people to believe that government does nothing.
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@chartier Leading to my ongoing rant about people who would argue, for any given subject:
"Yes but that's a problem from the distant past. These things are no longer an issue!"
THAT'S BECAUSE THERE'S REGULATIONS.
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The number of people who are actively making a profit off of poisoning us is on the rise. -
And labor regulations are by and large written in blood.
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@chartier Always funny seeing Americans say that stuff.
Chlorine chicken, mystery beef, no testing regime, constant outbreaks of salmonella... yep, regulations are working great there
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@chartier or were never told about it to begin with?
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@chartier Always funny seeing Americans say that stuff.
Chlorine chicken, mystery beef, no testing regime, constant outbreaks of salmonella... yep, regulations are working great there
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@noodlemaz @chartier oh, yeh, I get that, it's just a bit rich for a people from a country with nearly no regulation to lecture the world about the importance of regulation.
It's the usual hegemonic play from Americans, at all levels. We live through this daily
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@chartier @DoomsdaysCW Oh, let me tell you an anecdote.
The European Union has been very slow in coordinating and unifying its consumer protections.
Spain joined the EEC in 1986.
But back in 1984 we had one of the strictest consumer protection laws; it took years for the EU to "reach us" in stuff like informative labels. We also had quirks like a prohibition of bulk buying (as in, unpackaged) to final consumers.
And it was because back in 1981, 330 people died and thousands got seriously ill from industrial-use oil sold as food-grade. To this day, people won't buy canola oil because the name sounds as poison. The case was a form of collective trauma.
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Bread in the US and UK in the 18th and 19th centuries was often adulterated with plaster, alum, bone meal, chalk, clay, or sawdust.
Unadulterated capitalism = adulterated bread (& etc).
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@noodlemaz @chartier oh, yeh, I get that, it's just a bit rich for a people from a country with nearly no regulation to lecture the world about the importance of regulation.
It's the usual hegemonic play from Americans, at all levels. We live through this daily
@sortius @noodlemaz @chartier not sure why you're assuming the post is directed at non-Americans.
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A SHAMEFUL SHAM. "Quakers" Used in the Coffee We Buy. THAT IS THEIR TRADE NAME. Lady Tells What She Knows About the Frauds. Even the Whole - Berry Browned Coffee Is Full of the Vilest Adulterants.
"If the what-is-it coffee adulterant is the same stuff that they in the house I have been working for I can tell you what it is." Mrs. Minnie Le Long smiled as she said these words to THE CALL reporter.
"Yes; tell us, please,' said THE CALL man. "Well, it is old bread, musty barley and dough made from the cheapest kind of flour, all browned to the color of coffee and then ground up and mixed with the coffee." "Are you quite sure about that?" "Sure?" Mrs. Long laughed. "Of course I am sure."
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@chartier the capitalism we have is killing us anyway, but it’s nice not to eat chalk macaroni
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This is a lie, right?
Tell me this is a lie, goddammit. -
@sortius @noodlemaz @chartier not sure why you're assuming the post is directed at non-Americans.
@HunterZ @noodlemaz @chartier because it's posted on the internet. You do understand that the internet crosses the whole globe?
Aaah hegemonic peoples, everyone else doesn't exist unless you let them
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@chartier given that these reforms were due to the muckraking journalism era, it's entirely possible that some of them weren't told about this
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@chartier BWAHAHAHAHA...Oh, dear sweet naive child. In some economic systems just COMPLAINING that they were being fed spoiled food measurably could kill them faster than the tainted goods themselves. You think it's capitalism forcing one quarter of north korea to starve to death? Capitalism that created the Holodomor?
Become a better student of history. Regulations in many nations were ENTIRELY because it's ruling class enjoyed them was standard faire across the world until the late 1800's. -
@chartier Fast Forward to 2026 - Now, look and see
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And labor regulations are by and large written in blood.
