re: #452 Dark_Falcon

I’m far more comfortable with self-interested companies than altruistic government. Money minded assholes are at least predictable, and can be influenced. Government may well decided the their scheme is “the fair way” and jam it through regardless of costs. Corporations also don’t have the use of the FBI and DEA to enforce their decisions.

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They can’t be “influenced”. They can only be regulated. And you must have strong enforcement assets and funding behind the regulation. Otherwise it’s Enrons and Madoffs all over the place.

A “free market” is chaos without regulation. Regulation is chaos with the big stick.