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Re:We may have reached peak “gig” economy by TeMPOraL on Monday February 06, 2017 @06:31PM (#13585378)
Regulations aren't mathematical proofs. Laws not working somewhere doesn't justify tearing them down everywhere. You don't see people arguing "Hey, seen that robbery on the news? Those regulations obviously don't work; fuck it, let's make theft legal."

To reiterate coldpie's point, "regulations don't come about because some lawmakers got bored, they come about in answer to a problem". Before going full anti-regulatory based on personal experience, one would be good to consider the relative impact on all places.

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Re:We may have reached peak “gig” economy by mindcrime on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @04:50PM (#13593191)
"regulations don't come about because some lawmakers got bored, they come about in answer to a problem"

Sure, if you consider the desire of incumbent businesses to lock out competition and artificially inflate their profits to be a "problem".

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Re:We may have reached peak “gig” economy by Arizhel on Monday February 06, 2017 @07:15PM (#13585729)
I never said they should be torn down or that they can never work.

I merely have the position that regulation is not the panacea that the pro-regulation people seem to think it is. If it works, great. If it doesn't work, then instead of harassing the people who work around broken regulations which just support rent-seeking by cronies, maybe we should look at fixing the political system and eliminating the corruption and bad regulation and bad regulators instead. But that's never proposed as a solution, probably because 1) it's too hard, and 2) the pro-regulation people don't like to admit to the existence of corruption.

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