[quote=@Andreyich] Only from the perspective that big businesses can afford to skirt around them and little ones can't. [/quote] No, it's because big business can afford big strict regulations. And small ones can't. https://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/economics/item/23401-regulatory-overreach-is-killing-small-businesses http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/12/davies-and-mccarl-how-big-business-benefits-regula/ http://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/washingtonbureau/2016/04/10-regulations-that-give-small-business-owners-the.html [quote=@Andreyich] why you stop outsourcing [/quote] Free country. You can't. If a company wants to move to Europe entirely, you can't stop them in America...(as much as Trump seems to want that to be a thing.) [quote=@Andreyich] Don't try to distract me by linking to something vaguely related but not pertinent. I'm talking about emissions and other such things when speaking environmentally and while clickbait does mislead companies there should nevertheless be more quality control. Technically, little businesses can't really outsource and are much easier to be inspected/made irreputable so they can't and won't but if they do, sure restrict them too. [/quote] I'm not sure exactly what this is even trying to say, but America's emissions already have been declining. Were doing just fine and the EPA will not solve any of our problems. :/ http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-one-example-of-regulations-killing-a-small-business-2011-11 An example of an EPA rule, actually killing a small business. To put it bluntly, all of the overreach does more harm than good. And I don't really know any current example where it was proven to be a "good thing". [quote=@Andreyich] I'm not really up for deciding alone what is big business, I'm simply to insignificant doing naught but arguing on a memeing creep's thread on a site to make stories involving weird shit on. This guy's mention "climate change hysteria" is also kind of silly going along with the "lol the changes we are experiencing are mostly natural :))))" crowd. [/quote] The problem is, a lot of the 'eat the rich' (envious mentality) comes from immoral arguments anyway...The Fight for 15. Why 15? Who cares, the number doesn't matter (it's not thought out at all.) It just sounds nice. It's arguing people that flip burgers should make the same hourly wage as an actual profession that can't be done by literally everyone. And you can argue it all you want, or go "well that just means those actual professions should be paid MORE." But that's not how businesses work. People can't seem to grasp the reality of life that people pay what they think your worth. If you think that sucks, thank god there's free market competition. Or they wouldn't HAVE a choice. Money doesn't grow on trees and it seems like even some politicians haven't learned that concept yet... [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn4p-EBWAKo[/youtube] Mentioning things like communism, they didn't want you to be -paid- for work at all. :/ Yeah, silly internet. It's obvious that 99% percent of science people agree anyway. That's how science works right? /s But getting off topic... [quote=@Andreyich] I'm also not suggesting using the European model, but nevertheless there are blatant moments of overstepping boundaries like the Volkswagen scandal. [/quote] Fun. Though I don't really know what the solution to that is...clearly it wasn't making rules and regulations. Because they lied about meeting them...The government is apparently doing nothing about it either, but they're still the one we need to come up with the solution? Like, I don't know where to even go from there... http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/vw-scandal-exposes-deep-complicity-of-government-a-1061615.html [quote=@Andreyich] Also, income inequality also hurts economies because then the poor can buy less products and put back less into the economy which what like, all depressions were about, which was solved by some measure of socialist policy. [/quote] If income inequality was getting worse and worse in American, as people claim it does. Let's take the word for it. Then again, our poor wouldn't be doing better than the middle class globally...and this wouldn't exist. http://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/report/how-poor-are-americas-poor-examining-the-plague-poverty-america [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkebmhTQN-4[/youtube] When completion thrives, more products get made and more products become cheaper. That's why the most expensive phone a few years ago, cost next to nothing after that. :/ So, citation very much needed if you're going to state otherwise. Socialist policies help eh? Where has it helped? http://www.aei.org/publication/why-socialism-always-fails/ http://www.orthodoxnet.com/news/WhySocialismAlwaysResultsInTyranny.html https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-of-scandinavian-socialism/