• paultimate14@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    I would disagree with the “ALL” laws. Regulatory capture is a thing. There’s plenty of bad laws that exist to do things like keep new small businesses from entering into industries to compete, or to help the wealthy maintain power. I just view those as symptoms of the greater imbalance of society.

    Laws are tools, and can be created and used for both evil and good.

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      6 hours ago

      I mean, I would love to know what laws are harmful to new small businesses that don’t also a amount to laws for “Don’t exploit your workers”.

      • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
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        5 hours ago

        The way tax laws are structured, big businesses generally pay much less taxes compared to smaller businesses. Non-compete laws are very much in favor of big business, as it prevents ex-workers from forming competitive smaller businesses in the same field.

        Citizens United massively favors the interests of big businesses who can out-bribe smaller businesses, which allows bigger businesses to become monopolies to crush smaller businesses from out-competing them.