Could housing be cheaper and better if we stop building so many staircases?

Re:Could housing be cheaper and better if we stop building s... by Falkon1313 on Friday December 24, 2021 @07:58PM (#29679298)

The standard is "Safety regulations are written in blood." That's short enough and better than indirectly referring to it via a named 'law'.

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Re:Could housing be cheaper and better if we stop building s... by pas on Saturday December 25, 2021 @06:16AM (#29682301)

The regulations are not evidence based, they are outrage based though :/

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Re:Could housing be cheaper and better if we stop building s... by lrem on Saturday December 25, 2021 @06:41AM (#29682462)

These things correlate though. Sure, sometimes we get misses like child car seats, but more often than not outrage-induced regulation manages to make things better.

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Re:Could housing be cheaper and better if we stop building s... by pas on Saturday December 25, 2021 @07:14AM (#29682661)

But that's the point. Outrage based policy itself has a very bad efficacy. All the think of the children shit leads to almost universally bad policy.

Cancer outrage? You get the California meaningless stickers.

Police brutality? Racism? You get polarizing protests and no real change.

Outrage is at best the first step. But it's really the sign of decades (or more) of gridlocked politics.

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