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> Why can't the consumer decide who is lying and who isn't and what is safe and what isnt

Expertise, incentive, and efficiency. We had the approach you suggest, we got rid of it because we tired of people dying.

I greatly enjoy being able to purchase things without regularly having to send them off for analysis. If you'd like to drink raw milk buy a cow.



You're claiming that a federal agency is useful because of efficiency. My sides.


Yes, yes, don't think, just mock.

People being defrauded, injured, poisoned, and dying must be much more efficient. That's the reality that drove the formation of these agencies.

I'm sure an inability to trust the safety, quality, and accuracy of the things one buys wouldn't have any negative effect at all on a market.

The illustrious and unbesmirched track record of the worlds major auditing, accountancy, and credit firms has demonstrated beyond doubt that private enterprise can truly be trusted to handle these matters in a manner that puts society's needs at the forefront.

Since we're already laughing, I propose we go further! Privatising the military would unleash the inherent good and efficiency only found within corporations. A free market of privately held armies, competing against one another for the benefit of society. Federal taxes would drop drastically, what could go wrong?


> That's the reality that drove the formation of these agencies.

I said federal agencies are inefficient. You argued they were created for a reason. This isn't exactly an argument.


The argument is that they're more efficient than the alternatives:

> People being defrauded, injured, poisoned, and dying must be much more efficient

> I'm sure an inability to trust the safety, quality, and accuracy of the things one buys wouldn't have any negative effect at all on a market.

And that private business is not an alternative, having given rise to the need for such an agency in the first place and a demonstrated inability to oversee, audit, or classify honestly:

> The illustrious and unbesmirched track record of the worlds major auditing, accountancy, and credit firms has demonstrated beyond doubt that private enterprise can truly be trusted to handle these matters in a manner that puts society's needs at the forefront.

That's not to say that the public agencies responsible couldn't be improved but the idea that privatisation of these matters leads to increased efficiency is farcical.


If you want pasteurized milk, buy pasteurized milk.




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