Freechoice is the DNA of a freemarket. With each regulation more choices are removed. As with human DNA, the more alike the choices, the more inbred the result. Regulate enough and you have got the market equivilent of having the daughter of your daughter’s daughter. To say that only the govnmt can decide what one can buy is the same as admitting one is not intelligent enough to know ones own needs and desires.
Wrong. Let us imagine two similar businesses. One business is unclean and doesn’t want to be inspected by a health inspection agency, one business is clean and passes a health inspection. Which one will get more business? Which one will be able to charge a premium?
There are also ways to compete in restaurants without inspection. More companies may instead decide to compete by moving the kitchen to the customer. One example being a Hibachi grill. They are cooking the food right in front of you where you can see. Another example might be a pizzaria (where they have the ovens/kitchen in plain view while you wait for pizza).
Edit: Also franchising. McDonalds/Wendys/insert franchise here will want consistent food throughout all of their restaurants. They will make more money by being known as a healthy and safe restaurant chain (and make sure it is enforced).
If you do not like it, then do not eat food without labels, do not eat at restaurants that aren’t approved by agencies you trust, do not buy products that are not approved by agencies you trust, only eat at restaurants that cook the food where you can see. No one is FORCING YOU to eat at the restaurant or buy that specific product, and all the monopoly does is making it illegal for anyone else to do so.
Edit: Would he buy lemonade from a girl across the street? Would he buy cookies made at a school to raise money for something? Does he eat food at a neighbor/friend’s party?
Yeah, it is very hard to think of examples off the top of your head unless you have given the idea a some previous thought. But that is what talking with others is for.
Edit: Also, what is his take on Software and user reviews? Does he refuse to download anything at all since there is not a government monopoly approving the software?
Is the health inspector a government regulator or a free market company that’s being hired to inspect?
I’ll ask him those questions. But yes, those are good points. Food would probably be a lot more safe if government wasn’t the only one allowed to inspect food products or any other product for that matter. Entire industries of food inspectors and reviewers would likely pop up and compete with each other to give restaurants/stores their stamp of approval, leading to more sales. That makes a lot of sense.
Thanks for all the help. It’s much appreciated.
Are you asking who inspects in the present?
No problem. And it seems like a lot of his arguments are only imagining one side of profits (cutting costs), while completely failing to take into account the other side of the coin (raising quality). So whenever he brings up these questions, perhaps it might be easiest to just try to think of how given example could raise quality (aka compete) in the marketplace.
I’m asking who you meant by health inspector, government bureaucrat or a privately hired inspector in a world without the government monopoly on safety inspection.
I’ll take your advice and see where it gets me with him, thanks again.
Well in my example where I bring up the question of comparing two businesses (one without health inspection and one with health inspection), I was meaning in the market. Currently you have no choice, it is illegal to run a restaurant without the government approved health inspection.
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When talking about regulation consider the IT industry..there is no regulation by governments in Information Techonology. I am in this since the last 40 years and never had to ask for any Governement previous license to develop my applications..and I have the honor to be in the team that built Brazilian Federal Governmmet fisrt on line real time system in 1973..there is no jail if a bank forgets to carry backup copies of their databases..there is nothing…the industry has its own standards witout any wise guys from Washungton, Brasilia, Brussels, etc
and it workks and it is very very important..sometimes makes mistakes like some crashes in Wall Street ..but delivered the wonderful Internet…
The only law that aplies to IT is the second law that governs world..“being afraid of losing my job”
I hope thsii helps you…I have the same problem discussing with people…they just look at me and say I am crazy…I belive in Utopia..etc
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