Government regulators have grown massively over time as corporations are globally influential so governments become increasingly global.
There was a time when companies were local and the locals knew who the snake oil salesman was and word of mouth became the regulator.
I’m a great believer that decentralised decision making is the way forward and the world is full of examples that illustrate why, sadly this doesn’t help the global elites who demand power over everyone and everything.
What a wonderful quote from Dr Ley about the FDA protecting the drug companies.
Since the drug companies ultimately basically have only 1 family owning the whole lot, it is a vast concentration of power, wealth, income and control of all medical training. Not just in the US but around the world.
Even decentralization of power in non governmental organizations is primarily a form of self policing that favors the economic interest of the group, the American dental association, for example, may block a solution for reducing cavities that would drastically reduce the need for dentists. Especially where the solution is not a part of the purview of dentistry. Granted, the moral conscientiousness of some groups might be subordinate to economic interests, but it can and will be corrupted over time. Therefore, religion or theology will in theory have a multiplying effect on all levels in society against that corruption. However, they must be free from governmental monopoly in order not to be a tool of control. Unfortunately, our founding father’s system of checks and balances has been overcome on virtually all levels, so that none of these solutions are uncorrupted by the concentration of wealth. We convince ourselves through epistemically bias, that our motives are acceptable. It is through self deceit that we control and are controlled.
That's why monopoly of authority is the root of all tyranny. It's also why there's no such thing as a utopia, and why the price of freedom is eternal vigilance by at least a critical mass of people.
the blob administrative state has usurped all three branches into one totalitarian force that can be wielded without recourse. The blob has no oversight and is not answerable to the electorate. It is an all-consuming tumor devouring America.
As if business entities with global interests and presents can or will fairly end earnestly govern them selves? Motherfuck we proven that to be untrue 1000 times better get the fuck off of this platform. Go play in traffic or better yet self immolate, today!
"Independent" government sanctioned and non governmental regulators can be just as corruptible, self serving, and bureaucratic. They exist as much or more to promote their own existence than to improve the quality and safety of the regulated. The must forever justify their existence, they attract employees who are, or become tyrannical clipboard holding boxcheckers, looming over the regulated with poorly vetted and industry serving mandates and guidelines. They also foster many defacto cartels that cordon off large swaths of the economy from market forces, defaulting to just another cost/tax that is heckling productivity and thriving. They drive up the costs for all a hidden "inflation" that escapes cost control measures. To the regulated, they are just another layer of fiction that we must pay obeisance to or suffered citation, sanctioning, demonstration without reasonable recourse. They answer only to themselves. The regulated, without other choices "play the game," adding more more costly endulged fictiond onto their daily existence so they can just do what they need to survive, while the regulators, like delighted power hungry despots, move from one business the the next with thinly veiled periodic "shakedown" style certifications. They work to sustain an image that hovers just over the minimal value threshold so they won't be shown to be yet another de-clothed emperor.
I do agree with all your points. Even in decentralized systems there may be points of intersection that if controlled will effectively cancel out other countermeasures. Shutting down the Suez Canal or other choke point or intersection in any system can then be a single point of failure.
Government regulators have grown massively over time as corporations are globally influential so governments become increasingly global.
There was a time when companies were local and the locals knew who the snake oil salesman was and word of mouth became the regulator.
I’m a great believer that decentralised decision making is the way forward and the world is full of examples that illustrate why, sadly this doesn’t help the global elites who demand power over everyone and everything.
What a wonderful quote from Dr Ley about the FDA protecting the drug companies.
Since the drug companies ultimately basically have only 1 family owning the whole lot, it is a vast concentration of power, wealth, income and control of all medical training. Not just in the US but around the world.
Even decentralization of power in non governmental organizations is primarily a form of self policing that favors the economic interest of the group, the American dental association, for example, may block a solution for reducing cavities that would drastically reduce the need for dentists. Especially where the solution is not a part of the purview of dentistry. Granted, the moral conscientiousness of some groups might be subordinate to economic interests, but it can and will be corrupted over time. Therefore, religion or theology will in theory have a multiplying effect on all levels in society against that corruption. However, they must be free from governmental monopoly in order not to be a tool of control. Unfortunately, our founding father’s system of checks and balances has been overcome on virtually all levels, so that none of these solutions are uncorrupted by the concentration of wealth. We convince ourselves through epistemically bias, that our motives are acceptable. It is through self deceit that we control and are controlled.
That's why monopoly of authority is the root of all tyranny. It's also why there's no such thing as a utopia, and why the price of freedom is eternal vigilance by at least a critical mass of people.
noted.
the blob administrative state has usurped all three branches into one totalitarian force that can be wielded without recourse. The blob has no oversight and is not answerable to the electorate. It is an all-consuming tumor devouring America.
As if business entities with global interests and presents can or will fairly end earnestly govern them selves? Motherfuck we proven that to be untrue 1000 times better get the fuck off of this platform. Go play in traffic or better yet self immolate, today!
"Independent" government sanctioned and non governmental regulators can be just as corruptible, self serving, and bureaucratic. They exist as much or more to promote their own existence than to improve the quality and safety of the regulated. The must forever justify their existence, they attract employees who are, or become tyrannical clipboard holding boxcheckers, looming over the regulated with poorly vetted and industry serving mandates and guidelines. They also foster many defacto cartels that cordon off large swaths of the economy from market forces, defaulting to just another cost/tax that is heckling productivity and thriving. They drive up the costs for all a hidden "inflation" that escapes cost control measures. To the regulated, they are just another layer of fiction that we must pay obeisance to or suffered citation, sanctioning, demonstration without reasonable recourse. They answer only to themselves. The regulated, without other choices "play the game," adding more more costly endulged fictiond onto their daily existence so they can just do what they need to survive, while the regulators, like delighted power hungry despots, move from one business the the next with thinly veiled periodic "shakedown" style certifications. They work to sustain an image that hovers just over the minimal value threshold so they won't be shown to be yet another de-clothed emperor.
I happen to be reading Frédérique Bastiat (The Law) now. It’s my fervent wish that he ends with answers to the circular problems he cites.
yeah, but nah, but yeah.
Think supply of lithium, for example.
I do agree with all your points. Even in decentralized systems there may be points of intersection that if controlled will effectively cancel out other countermeasures. Shutting down the Suez Canal or other choke point or intersection in any system can then be a single point of failure.
The word I typed in my comment on decentralization was epistemic bias.
Yes, I figured that out.