Quote from: Friedrich on March 30, 2010, 09:15:37 PMQuote from: Mizzle on March 30, 2010, 04:37:21 PMSame idea applies to the shoes you are wearing. What kind of oversight do you think Vietnam has for their clothing industry. Perhaps they use many harsh chemicals in the process. This thought never crosses into most peoples minds.Oversight is not only the process of controlling the production, but also the finished product. We have several institutions for this: "Stiftung Warentest" and the "Verbraucherzentrale" are two of them. I don't know the American system well enough to verify if there is something comparable.You seem to come around though and agree that there has to be some kind of oversight, as long as they don't demand money from you.Right. I'm not strictly opposed to some form of oversight. Clearly there is a demand for such a thing in the free market.Take colleges and universities, for example. Here in the USA, it's all about your school being regionally accredited. The government doesn't stamp your post-secondary education, why does it have to stamp your food?Additionally, I don't mind indirectly paying for this type of oversight. I understand that if a product has been reviewed and tested by an agency, that product might be able to license the agency's name, etc, and use it on their product as 'Agency certified' or what have you. Businesses would pay this company to review their products. Alternatively, the agency could publish some kind of product almanac and provide reviews of different products and business that consumers could review. Kind of like Consumer Reports or something of that nature.I hate the fact that if I don't agree with the government's review of something, I still have to pay them to review it.There are millions and millions of problems in this world. Why does the government have to solve them? Why can't the individual decide what the correct solution is?I just don't want to be forced to pay for other peoples initiatives.
Quote from: Mizzle on March 30, 2010, 04:37:21 PMSame idea applies to the shoes you are wearing. What kind of oversight do you think Vietnam has for their clothing industry. Perhaps they use many harsh chemicals in the process. This thought never crosses into most peoples minds.Oversight is not only the process of controlling the production, but also the finished product. We have several institutions for this: "Stiftung Warentest" and the "Verbraucherzentrale" are two of them. I don't know the American system well enough to verify if there is something comparable.You seem to come around though and agree that there has to be some kind of oversight, as long as they don't demand money from you.
Same idea applies to the shoes you are wearing. What kind of oversight do you think Vietnam has for their clothing industry. Perhaps they use many harsh chemicals in the process. This thought never crosses into most peoples minds.
I'm sorry. Am I to understand that when you have a boner you like to imagine punching the shit out of Tom Bishop? That's disgusting.
Normally when I'm not sure I just cop a feel.
Psuedo anarcho-capitalism has worked so well in Africa, right guys?
I'm going to side with the white supremacists.
I kinda like public education, state universities, roads, FDA, the military, police dept, fire dept, EMS, a minimum wage, so on and so forth. Psuedo anarcho-capitalism has worked so well in Africa, right guys?