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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by sthnblllII on Thursday October 08, 2020 @12:10AM (#24715692)
> relegate the lobbyists to the lobby – giving them no access to markup sessions and no access to committee votes

These are some hot takes, but somewhat surprisingly they check out. Will read more.

Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by CyanBird on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:34AM (#24720086)
Yeah, yeah

D'Angelo goes further and interviews law professors on this issue, and they all not only seem perplexed at first, but agree with him later, and the caveat, is that US Law as it is taught from an orthodox angle, is only really taught after the 1970's or so, and don't really cover how legislation used to be done before it, so law students would naturally assume that "things always were the same way" when it came to how transparency was handled!

Here are some of the talks he has had with Law professors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVfzvhRhmgI&list=PLzctEq7iZD...

And some other snippets in general

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC88MPXm1jZPNRwdOGyBNqqg/vid...

By now I am convinced that this is the missing piece, that accounts for not only the split between worker-productivity and wages, but everything else since the 1970's, this transparency revolution, with the Toxic Transparency Paradox aftermath is what set the course to where we are today with legislative gridlock, polarization, increases in wealth inequality, oligarchic corporatism etc