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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are saying, regulations will fix this? Politicians create the regulations, the fines, and enforcement.

Political parties are running on platforms of deregulation right now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Regulations are actually generally created by regulatory bodies, which are usually non-political. For instance, the underwriter laboratory is the major appliance, building and electrical approval body in the United States.

In most countries, building codes and safety codes are created by industry specialists, people who have been in the industry as professionals for many decades and have practiced and been licensed in the field that they are riding the regulations for.

There's a big difference between politicians who are passing these laws, and those writing them who are the regulatory bodies. Generally, as a politicians will simply adopt the codes as recommended by the professional licensing and certification bodies.

I suppose it will be the end of modern civilization if politicians decide to politicize electrical or building codes. Then we'll be fucked for sure. We've seen that happen before with the Indiana pi bill.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill

"The Indiana Pi Bill is the popular name for bill #246 of the 1897 sitting of the Indiana General Assembly, one of the most notorious attempts to establish mathematical truth by legislative fiat."