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Andrew's avatar

I’m not really clear on how this gets you to more male votes and on the merits I’m even less clear on the tradeoffs.

Like of this policy in specific or the large neo Brandeisian anti-bigness move. There’s a lot of unconsidered tradeoffs in each of these moves that seems worth contemplating the specifics of. Starting with jobs in big corporations tend to be better.

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Andrew Heaton's avatar

Didn’t know about that regulation! Adding it to my list of things to gripe about

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Joshua Katz's avatar

With hesitation, I'll push back.

First, if not being weird is how you get male votes, Rs should be being 0. We will never be as weird as these freaks.

Second, I went to law school after more than a decade of doing libertarian stuff. The first thing that struck me in law school was just how little I'd asked, as a libertarian, why the law was the way it was, and in particular, if there exists a non conspiratorial answer.

Most ls aren't cts. But they do very easily leap to explanations like "they hate small business" rather than asking if there may be other reasons (no one shakes down Citibank for $1k but they might do that with the neighborhood grocery).

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Taka's avatar

I don't think it's a conspiracy theory to state that the general trend of corporate growth in the last 40 years has been toward monopoly and less competition. Just look at healthcare: the small private practices and community hospitals are now increasingly part of giant multi-state (and even international) conglomerates. How that happens is directly ties to regulatory changes and enforcement. It is not a coincidence that the healthcare industry spends hundreds of millions yearly on state and federal lobbying.

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