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There are three kinds of people: 1. Those who want less regulation 2. Those who want more regulation 3. Those who want better regulation Two of them are wrong.
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I don't think the trinary you're proposing here is absolute. People can want different regulation that doesn't really fall into any category. Like.. I live in California where we have some serious environmental issues: Crazy fires, failing ground and surface water issues, disgusting air pollution, obscene lack of accessible housing, etc. Some problems require more, less or better regulation. Some need public services or a public buying option, or better infrastructure, different dis/incentives, etc.. Many things just need more money because the biggest businesses here pay few taxes and push the burden onto working people. Sometimes these things conflict w/ each other, making problems more complex. Capitalism creates precarious conditions which require onerous regulation to maintain, in an ever-deepening spiral of negative externalities. The interests of capital and the state are *intended* to be at odds under capitalism, and the idea that it's a "people problem" is fraction imposed by the ruling class.
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The perspective I'd like to argue for is that regulation is not quantitative, but rather qualitative. Asking for "more" or "less" of it is just talking past each other. There is no such thing as "no regulation", even the decision to not constrain an action is a regulatory act. We'd all be better off if we discussed regulation through the lens of "how do we improve our regulations?" Which may of course mean editing some old clauses (removing a line, adding a line, it's all just editing). Obvious example: "Crypto is unregulated" "Crypto needs more regulation" "Crypto is overregulated" All true statements depending which perspective you take yet there's no majority that will agree on one. Instead, I suspect most people would agree "Crypto needs better regulation" and I suspect from that starting point we might even (mostly) agree about what that looks like.
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