RE: UK to leave EU
July 25, 2016 at 7:51 am
(This post was last modified: July 25, 2016 at 8:08 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Deregulating big business in the name of small business, if we ignore the blatant dishonesty in the platforms and their rape and pillage mentality...-seems- like it would at least be a wash as to helping big/small business, all other things being equal. Unfortunately, all other things are not equal. Imagine what would happen to -actual- small farmers if the regulations here in the states..already loose, regarding what can and cannot carry the USDA Cert Organic standards were loosened further.
The little guys only exist because, at a critical point of scale, the overhead on a large organic operation starts to add up exponentially rather than linearly. Even so, most of our organic produce -already- comes from factory farms. If those factory farms lobbies can get just a -few- regulations loosed, the little guys will be gone and so will the product that the consumer wants. Hilariously, the consumer is unlikely to even know about it, because that sort of thing is back of the house business.
Deregulation, as practiced here, is just another form of silent corporate subsidy. "Well golly gee random megafarm..you can't turn a profit on this product? Let's loosen the regulations until you can! Don't worry, we tell everyone it's for the little guys." Compounding this sad scenario...is that the regulations which stand are almost invariably designed by and for those very same people that benefit from deregulation elsewhere. The reason for this isn't always or entirely sinister, they just have the money, time and influence to get the ear of lawmakers. Regulation and deregulation becomes a tool to push people out, with the one hand....and then benefit those remaining with the other.
The little guys only exist because, at a critical point of scale, the overhead on a large organic operation starts to add up exponentially rather than linearly. Even so, most of our organic produce -already- comes from factory farms. If those factory farms lobbies can get just a -few- regulations loosed, the little guys will be gone and so will the product that the consumer wants. Hilariously, the consumer is unlikely to even know about it, because that sort of thing is back of the house business.
Deregulation, as practiced here, is just another form of silent corporate subsidy. "Well golly gee random megafarm..you can't turn a profit on this product? Let's loosen the regulations until you can! Don't worry, we tell everyone it's for the little guys." Compounding this sad scenario...is that the regulations which stand are almost invariably designed by and for those very same people that benefit from deregulation elsewhere. The reason for this isn't always or entirely sinister, they just have the money, time and influence to get the ear of lawmakers. Regulation and deregulation becomes a tool to push people out, with the one hand....and then benefit those remaining with the other.
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