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Re:Bad government policy is fueling the infant formula shortage by chii on Saturday May 14, 2022 @11:08PM (#31384930)
what if gov't regulated industry must also come with a mandated set of startup tax breaks or grants, for fostering competition?

If regulation is what stops competition from forming, but the regulation is required for safety reasons, it makes logical sense to assist new competition into the market. This assistance should be limited to helping the startup be certified, etc, in such as way as to eliminate the barrier to entry resulting from the regulation (but not more - i.e., startups aren't getting extra help beyond that, so as not to artificially subsidize them but not their larger counterparts).

Re:Bad government policy is fueling the infant formula shortage by epicureanideal on Sunday May 15, 2022 @01:51AM (#31385542)
> This assistance should be limited to helping the startup be certified, etc

Sounds like it would create some inappropriate incentives for lawyers and others assisting with certification...

But generally I agree with the sentiment of the idea. Just not sure how to deal with further layers of problems.

Re:Bad government policy is fueling the infant formula shortage by specialist on Sunday May 15, 2022 @01:42PM (#31389330)
Aka Govt administered cartelism. Which we already have. The trick is changing the governance (incentives, transparency, accountability) to favor people over corporations (and finance).

Perhaps one step would be to stop thinking of corporations are superpersons, deserving of superrights. Instead, we could charter corporations and stipulate that they serve the public good.