> … was just ignoring regulations that were built up over decades, only discovering the reasons for those regulations …
yeah it’s unreal to me how many people who imagine themselves intelligent are just now discovering the equivalent to why we make wheels round.
they never think to ask “why does regulation x exist?”
its absolutely crazypants.
> they never think to ask “why does regulation x exist?”
They do, but they think the answer is always some riff on, "government overreach because bureaucrats need to justify their jobs."
That attitude has been firmly ingrained into (at least) a generation of people.
TBF, a solid 50% of regulation is probably government overreach. The problem is that it's intrinsically tangled with the other 50% (crossing various specializations/laws/departments) that isn't; you can't undo one without undoing both.
love the use of "solid" when both numbers (50, and the other 50) are pure unobtanium pulled out of an orifice.
"a lot" would be less rhetorically satisfying, but probably more appropriate.
I suspect the number is in fact, far less than 50%. In mining engineering, I'd be amazed if a significant majority of the rules don't stem from a significant accident or death, or forseeable need to avoid them. In medicine, the stakes are equally high. Building codes? It depends. The cost of tunnelling in NY isn't because of government compliance.
Propaganda works.