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I own a business, a small business mind you that has yet to turn a profit but I am a business owner and I've been working 60 hours a week trying to build it to be successful.

There is this very negative stereotype about corporations and how evil they are and how we need to regulate them like crazy.

Let's take a huge corporation like google, google is a company I despise. I won't give my reasons here because it's irrelevant. But because I dislike them, I have removed them from my life. I don't use google for anything. I even adblock youtube on my phone and computer. (Sorry content creators)

When google does something bad people want regulations, instead of removing them from their life.

When you have a bad friend you don't ask the government to make them stop doing something. You tell them stop and when they won't you end the friendship. Companies are people the more you support bad business practices the more you will see of them. Regulations just allow bad people to stay in business, when you make it so a business can't destroy itself you ruin the concept of a free market.

My point being corporations are people, and just like people instead of asking the government to make them a good friend, you find a better friend. Theres so many small businesses out there that believe in treating people right, but it's hard for them to grow as we put more and more regulations on things. Where I'm from they've made a new rule on licenses for crane operators over a certain weight limit. It's not some license that you go take some simple test for, it's thousands of dollars per person. This means most small crane businesses won't be afford to run anymore, and definitely new businesses won't be able to be started.

This is sorta just my stream of thoughts on the subject.

I own a business, a small business mind you that has yet to turn a profit but I am a business owner and I've been working 60 hours a week trying to build it to be successful. There is this very negative stereotype about corporations and how evil they are and how we need to regulate them like crazy. Let's take a huge corporation like google, google is a company I despise. I won't give my reasons here because it's irrelevant. But because I dislike them, I have removed them from my life. I don't use google for anything. I even adblock youtube on my phone and computer. (Sorry content creators) When google does something bad people want regulations, instead of removing them from their life. When you have a bad friend you don't ask the government to make them stop doing something. You tell them stop and when they won't you end the friendship. Companies are people the more you support bad business practices the more you will see of them. Regulations just allow bad people to stay in business, when you make it so a business can't destroy itself you ruin the concept of a free market. My point being corporations are people, and just like people instead of asking the government to make them a good friend, you find a better friend. Theres so many small businesses out there that believe in treating people right, but it's hard for them to grow as we put more and more regulations on things. Where I'm from they've made a new rule on licenses for crane operators over a certain weight limit. It's not some license that you go take some simple test for, it's thousands of dollars per person. This means most small crane businesses won't be afford to run anymore, and definitely new businesses won't be able to be started. This is sorta just my stream of thoughts on the subject.

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[–] Siedge [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

With the crane situation, when I used to run a crane, it would have been very very very difficult for me to injure anyone doing what I did. In-fact the only possible person to be injured would have been me. Charging multiple thousands of dollars doesn't prove someone is going to be safe. If the goal was to be safe it wouldn't cost thousands of dollars to take the test. Theres multiple fees, first you have to pay an approval fee (Which is over a thousand dollars on it's own) this fee is to get approved to take the exam. Then you pay for the exam, which costs per each time you take it. Explain why you would need to pay an approval fee if safety is what's being considered here? (Plus crane related fatalities in America is so low as it is, this isn't something that will lower the rate of fatalities in-fact because the license just limits the size of truck you can run, I imagine we will see an increase of fatalities due to people trying to lift bigger things with trucks not rated for those things.

I also don't believe the reason companies like Walmart are able to get so much power is because people are stupid, I attribute most of it to the odd information era we've been in. I don't see Walmart being around too much longer either..

Anyway my point being most the times these regulations are not made by some wonderful guy who wants to see everyone safe. It's by politicians who get paid by large corporations to make sure there's less competition.
[–] ForPhuksSake 1 points (+1|-0)

I don't have a dog in this fight but just some personal experience to offer. I've been on the end where I bought where it was cheapest due to financial constraints, and I've also been where I could afford to go where I wished. When one can afford quality in product and/or service people tend to buy quality because in the long run it actually saves money/time. Those who are unaware of this fact have likely never been fortunate enough to experience this truth. There are times, however especially now, where quality doesn't exist and you have to just accept it and get the best deal you can knowing you'll likely need to replace it again soon. Only those who aren't struggling can even get to the next level of worrying about what a company supports, represents, what their growth may impact, etc. That requires time that most don't have, even the more financially stable, due to poor time management or over burdening their obligations with family, friends, and community. Now we're at the point where there is so much saturation in exaggeration that no one knows what to believe so even when they may hear through word of mouth within their spheres, they're likely to shrug it off because it probably isn't entirely true or as bad/good as it sounds. None of these things mean that people don't care, but that they're just trying to make the best of life right now. And within their own sphere it doesn't appear that they're being the grasshopper instead of the ant because they can't zoom out to see the long term impacts. Our politicians know this, the big company owners know this, and they line one another's pockets with deals that allow them to bring about short term benefits to the plebs while ensuring long term strangulation at the same time. I don't know about the initial person saying people weren't smart enough meaning that people really are dumb so much as unaware. In this case is where we really need a respected group of people without any financial or political ties to offer insights that would give power back to the people. I'm hoping something like this will be coming about, it seems like a natural part of evolution after these last ten years of exponentially frenzied data tennis matches that are too complicated to keep up with for the average Joe/Jane with a life outside of combing multitudes of sites for the truth as best able to decipher. And wow am I all over the place.

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