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Re:California Man Fined $1k for Drawing Lines on Maps by axiolite on Thursday October 13, 2022 @05:25AM (#33188938)
Sounds nice in theory, but after decades of everything running smoothly, people forget just how instrumental certain laws were to ensure that stability.

It's a lot like anti-vaxers, anti-pasteurization, and other anti-science fads. And I can point to the repeal of banking regs like Glass-Steagall which resulted in the ~2007 financial crisis and recession. Including a post-it note on a law isn't going to give future people the same perspective as someone who lived through the issues first-hand. If that worked, we wouldn't have voters repeatedly supporting politicians who make the same insane promises that never work.

Re:California Man Fined $1k for Drawing Lines on Maps by NoGravitas on Thursday October 13, 2022 @08:39AM (#33190174)
Not to mention cryptocurrencies, which are currently speedrunning the history of financial crises and the regulations they inspired.
Re:California Man Fined $1k for Drawing Lines on Maps by prottog on Thursday October 13, 2022 @10:11AM (#33191209)
Seems like those financial regulations have caused people to forget that if something sounds too good to be true, it ain't.