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Re: Make H. S. Broadband available where AC power is available. said by The Limit:How is it socialist to have SOME regulation on the safety and quality of our products? It's not what a "free market" would produce simply by buyers exercising their due diligence, exercising the calculus of their wants/needs?
The premise of food- and drug-quality laws is that it's "for everyone's benefit" or "in the interest of public welfare."
But, those are just socialistic terms (used to justify building codes, zoning laws, the SEC, banking regulations, state creation of corporate charters). In the end they deny willing buyers and sellers from engaging in certain activities which may be beneficial to them -- simply because the needs of the many outweigh their needs.
Socialism is a reality. We enjoy its benefits every day -- if you define socialism by the standards Conservatives usually employ. The same argument could be made that we have capitalism instead of pure socialism. In reality, we have mixture of both: socialized capitalism.
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