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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

A genuinely free market would be even worse. We do have various protections in the US. If we had zero, companies would be dumping waste and giving everyone super-cancer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swill_milk_scandal

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 5 points 20 hours ago

I had a conversation with a coworker a while ago where he was like, "Well I just wouldn't buy the swill milk."

I was like, "How would you know??

The utter hubris of that kind of person thinking they're going to like spin up a whole chemistry lab to check the quality of everything they buy. The insanity of thinking that's a good world to envision.