It is definitely too long and needs simplification, but more than that it's still too full of holes for megacorps to exploit. Even with all this regulation supposedly "hindering" them, many pay zero taxes year after year or even take corporate welfare from taxpayers. Corporations for the most part already have zero allegiance to the country they were founded in, zero regulation just means regressing all the way back to child labor.
I think you misunderstand the point of regulation. It's not for the consumer's protection. Generally. regulation is there to benefit the corporation, causing a higher cost of entry for new competition. And you gotta ask yourself, if 170 THOUSAND pages can't stop a corporation from not paying taxes, what will? The government is ineffective at even securing funding for itself! You have two options. either the government is run by the corporations, allowing them to pay almost no taxes, or that they're incredibly ineffective, and frankly, dumb to a point where they can't plug a tax loophole in 170 thousand pages of regulations.
I would also like to say that child labour isn't inherently a bad thing. It's been a part of society for a very long time, and the only reason it has went out of style in the western world is because we as a society have created enough capital to make employing children a terrible way to make cash. Why would you have an unskilled, untrained, uneducated, and undisciplined worker, when you can wait for them to go through education, and hire a person who is at the very least educated. You wonder why most jobs require a high school degree? That's why. Child labour wouldn't be a thing in the western world without regulation. The reason why it's a thing is poorer countries is the fact that they haven't built up enough capital, and have not created a lot of jobs that require education.
If a family can not survive unless their 8 year old child works, then I say let them work. Putting regulations in place to prevent them from doing so just causes needless deaths of families who collapse under their own weight.
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I would prefer if you didn't offer your snide remarks instead of an actual argument. There is a difference between parenting and political ideology. Perhaps I should have said "political ideologies" instead of ideas. I apologize for the confusion.The cross-thread irony here is staggering