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What environmental rights are included. Will there be an EPA, FDA, USDA?
Environmental rights?
What environmental rights are included. Will there be an EPA, FDA, USDA?
How is depending on government looking out for yourself? Isn't that government looking out for you?
I'm unsure how viable it is, but I recall reading a somewhat fantastical system in some sci-fi book.Maybe you have the time and energy to test all your foods, liquids (including water) and toys for contaminants, ebola, lead, etc. I don't.
Maybe you have the time and energy to weigh everything - including the gas pumped into your car - to ensure the scales are correct. I don't.
Maybe you have the time and energy to check every producer of every good you buy to ensure they are paying minimum wage, worker's comp, etc. I don't.
Maybe you have the time and energy to go to every meat packing plant for the meat that you buy to ensure they are following health and safety standards. I don't.
Maybe you have the time and energy to check out the levees, making sure they will withstand the next rainfall. I don't.
Yes, I need the govt. doing all this stuff - and more - so I don't have to.
I'm unsure how viable it is, but I recall reading a somewhat fantastical system in some sci-fi book.
Basically, the author had this system wherein private quality assurance and standards monitoring companies competed for contracts from various manufacturing/service companies - basically if they put their stamp of approval on a product, it was considered acceptable by everyone who excepted that quality assurance/standard.
Needless to say when one of them took kickbacks to pass defective products as acceptable and was found out their business basically was dead.
Even though that was a made-up situation in a made-up science fiction world, I have occasionally wondered if it would work better than the multiple government agencies we have for such. Of course we could still have some standardized measurements and the like...
Quite simply, their brand would be unimpeachable accuracy and quality standards. Despoil the brand and you get fewer customers.My guess is, because private companies would need to make profits, the results would be less accurate and more costly. But I could be wrong.
Secure the borders; defend against invasion, retaliate against attacks.
Secure property rights, and the rights of the individual to life and liberty, and those rights that arise from that basic three. Keep such order as is necessary to have a functioning society.
Not much else really on my list.
I rather have somebody looking out for me that I can influence by voting, then have coporate entities river stomp me into the ground.
Quite simply, their brand would be unimpeachable accuracy and quality standards. Despoil the brand and you get fewer customers.
Of course this wouldn't work unless there were multiple of these companies competing, each forcing the other to have equal or better quality standards.
And now I'm imagining private corporations having to sign up with multiple quality assurance companies.... don't see it happening.
My company has s/w that is compliant with ITIL standards. These are certified by a company called Pink Elephant. But we don't put every version of every product through their certification due to cost. Imagine if there were competing companies!
In the author's fantasy world, there were court systems involving benevolent judges (also the world leaders/decision makers, what there were of those decisions) who had basically acquired office by donating all their assets to the government and living on a median income/lifestyle....Now, in addition to having to learn about the different products and different brands, people would have to learn about different auditing companies
In the author's fantasy world, there were court systems involving benevolent judges (also the world leaders/decision makers, what there were of those decisions) who had basically acquired office by donating all their assets to the government and living on a median income/lifestyle....
I've often thought it was that author's attempt to set up a near-libertarian society, if only in his mind/book.
Anyway, these courts would hear cases brought to them by citizens, and determine who owed who what (on their own judgement, no caselaw or guidelines, let alone jury) Hell at one point the author described a scene wherein a judge had a self-confessed and unrepentant rapist (societal clashes, long story) of an underage girl in his court.
In this fantasy world a recourse if you didn't like a court ruling was....dueling....so anyway, unrepentant rapist dirt-bag goes that route, someone hands him a gun, then judge pulls his handy (as in, he had it holstered on him at the time, or something) sidearm, and kills the rapist.
Vengeance, and all that. Judge apologized later, publicly, etc, etc, everything is fine, because bad guy, bull****, etc.
...............
Basically this author had an ideal society in mind, and built a sci-fi world to support it, with the bad guys losing and all that nice stuff.
Still some of the ideas stick with me, dunno why...
I'm unsure how viable it is, but I recall reading a somewhat fantastical system in some sci-fi book.
Basically, the author had this system wherein private quality assurance and standards monitoring companies competed for contracts from various manufacturing/service companies - basically if they put their stamp of approval on a product, it was considered acceptable by everyone who excepted that quality assurance/standard.
Needless to say when one of them took kickbacks to pass defective products as acceptable and was found out their business basically was dead.
Even though that was a made-up situation in a made-up science fiction world, I have occasionally wondered if it would work better than the multiple government agencies we have for such. Of course we could still have some standardized measurements and the like...