badgenome said:
Yeah, at the very least. The only problem I see with it is that regulations are always sold as "sticking it to the fat cats" anyway when the fat cats can always afford to comply (especially when they help write the damn things), and since they're always going to be sold as being progressive even if they're extremely regressive, you'll never know unless you look into just what the regulations do. And even though people seem to know that politicians are always full of shit, they also seem to always buy into this idea that a given regulation is just there to stop Evil Guys, Inc. from dumping AIDS in the water supply and could in no way hurt the small business owner if a pol tells them so. But there is no real substitute for people being informed, I guess, and when they're not... well, we end up here. |
Yep. It's sad that there isn't some sort of miraculous database that gives people access to information in seconds in which it previously would of took hours and sometimes weeks of grueling research to look up itself.
Eh, then again if it did exist it'd probably have porn that would distract everyone anyway.
