re: Here Are 6 Things White People Say That Highlight Their Privilege

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As we become more wealthy and you add barriers, the window shifts upward and becomes a floor, which becomes unattainable for those at the bottom.

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I will give you an example of something where I'm showing that I agree with you.
It costs $850,000 for a medical grow license in Illinois. That basically prices every small operation out of existence and only allows the wealthiest of grower to flourish. That is an example where I would totally agree with you about crony capitalism. I would add, however, that these regulations happen because someone who is very wealthy paid for a politician to do that so that they can keep the business. Meaning that it seems that profit motive only will create more situations where someone who has money already will block everyone else

Then there is the DuPont dumping chemicals regulations that are a very welcome regulation in my opinion because of the amount of harm that it was doing dumping forever chemicals into a town and killing people. Point is, if it's for the public good then regulations are necessary.

There are also Plenty of examples Of lack of regulation harming The price period Right after covid A lot of companies used the Excuse Of inflation To artificially raise some of their prices And And many of those cases there was no competition So they got to get away with it Period We only have four major meat manufacturers in this country And two companies that make baby formula. Pretty easy for those guys to jack up prices. It would take way too much capital for there to be any meaningful competition so this is where regulations are necessary to lower prices. It works both ways