alt Hacker News> … was just ignoring regulations that were built up over decades, only discovering the reasons for those regulations …
yeah it’s unreal to me how many people who imagine themselves intelligent are just now discovering the equivalent to why we make wheels round.
they never think to ask “why does regulation x exist?”
its absolutely crazypants.
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wat10000 • yesterday at 9:58 PM
Propaganda works.
> they never think to ask “why does regulation x exist?”
They do, but they think the answer is always some riff on, "government overreach because bureaucrats need to justify their jobs."
That attitude has been firmly ingrained into (at least) a generation of people.