(April 3, 2011 at 10:51 am)reverendjeremiah Wrote: I wonder how many pencil shavings you would be eating per day if Voids system was in control of the government. You would have to deal with monopolies that would find ways to cut costs and raise prices every day.. even if it means sneaking in another table spoon of ground pigs hair into the mix to make up the difference.1) Not every single piece of food is tested by the government before we eat it. You could be eating pencil shavings now and you wouldn't know it unless you did your own tests.
2) Just because the government wouldn't be testing food doesn't mean that other private institutions wouldn't either. In the Computer industry, there are many private regulatory bodies that build up a presence and charge for people to get certified with them. For instance, in computer security, CAP, SSCP and CISSP are all certificates issued by a private authority: (ISC)2.
There is no reason why this wouldn't also be true for the food industry if the government stepped back from regulating and spent more time policing. It's the rule of the market; if there is a demand for something, it'll appear pretty quickly.
