| ▲ | CamperBob2 10 hours ago | |
Some off-the-cuff examples that come to mind: - Drastic overregulation of nuclear energy in the US, resulting in fossil-fuel pollution measurable in gigatons over the past several decades accompanied by literally countless illnesses and premature deaths. - Premature mandates for airbags in cars that resulted in hundreds of needless child deaths because the technology wasn't yet safe enough for universal deployment. A scenario that's playing out right now with misfeatures like automated emergency braking. - The Jones Act (Merchant Marine Act of 1920), whose effects are too convoluted to go into here. - Misguided, market-distorting housing policies, ranging across the spectrum from rent control to Proposition 13. - Many if not most aspects of the War on Drugs, including but not limited to mandatory minimum sentencing and de-facto hardwiring of racial bias into the justice system. | ||