Buy-here-pay-here car dealers
Pawn shops
Payroll advance loans
Title loans
Private prisons
Bankruptcy-proof loans
Bankruptcy for corporations
Just spitballing here, feel free to add any I missed…
i’m sorry, but what is that first one, and what’s the alternative?
Making a profit from healthcare and health insurance.
Or even just make private health insurance illegal.
Unlimited campaign finance
Copyrights
We only really run into trouble when we start treating corporations like people and copyright as a commodity in it’s own right.
Non-transferable copyright for the life of the author would be perfectly acceptable.
Not for something like medicine or crops that people will die if the copyright holder abuses their copyright. In that case we have to act for the greater good and make medicine first, compensate creators later, if at all.
the statute of Anne was the first copyright law and it was written to stop printers in London from breaking each others’ knees over who was allowed to print the world of Shakespeare who was already long dead.
copyright is a bill of goods when packaged as a protection for creatives.
Nope, copyrights isn’t the issue, they enable people to earn money from their creativity, the issue is rather that they are way too long.
Back in the 1780s copyright lasted 14 years after the work was created.
This is fine, the current obscene legnth of copyright is terrible.
people have always been able to earn money from their creativity. copyright is just corporate greed.
Copyright provides the legal framework to ensure the copyright holder has their rights protected.
it’s a fictional right.
Technically every right and every prohibition is fictional…
oh shit. now you’re on my level
I’d be fine with copyright being like 20 years or so, that’s plenty of time to make a good amount of money from your work IMO. But yeah the current system where some corporation gets to keep cashing in on something half a century after the author is dead is pretty ridiculous.
Popups.
Those chainsaw discs for angle grinders.
They is crazy, I didn’t know those existed. Are they dangerous? Seems low utility given the small diameter.
Incredibly. They’re used for carving wood, but they’re super grabby. Grabby with any cutting tool is bad.
Didn’t even know that was a thing. Looks so sketchy.
“Sketchy” is an understatement, the thing is just itching to embed itself in your throat meat.
I’ve never seen those, but it sounds fun
Advertising. I just hate how it’s crept into every facet of our lives and it’s not done intruding in on our daily lives either.
Yep. It’s insane to me how society goes to such lengths to make road transportation, driving, cars etc safer, and then is perfectly fine with billboards. It’s super illegal to be distracted by your phone whilst driving, but a giant graphical ad on the side of the road is totally cool. Whut
- not having the day off to vote
- FPTP
- unlimited funding from unrestricted sources in politics
- impunity for blatantly corrupt unelected political appointees
Etc.
not having the day off to vote
Most crountries have elections on thw weekend…
Lots of people work on weekends.
Yep?
But less people work on weekends than on weekdays.
There is no universal day for everyone to make it, which is why Sweden offers pre-election voting and voting by mail, plenty of other countries does as well.
Ridiculous rental prices and annual rent increases with no improvements to show for it.
Requiring the purchase or use of proprietary software or formats to view or submit public records.
Or medical. Or educational.
Making more than 10x the money of your least paid employee.
This.
I get where you’re coming from, but I think you’d just see companies divide into tiers where one tier would subcontract to the tier below. Think “cleaning services companies” all the way down.
Simple : let’s make that illegal too
Well I don’t expect the exact phrasing of the code of law to be 11 words.
Hanging the toilet paper the wrong way.
Why does people care how they hang their toilet paper in their own bathroom?
Cigarettes
Yes… let’s create another prohibition era item… it’s a vice.
yea outlawing people’s drugs worked so well so far lmao
Eating animals
Boneless chicken with bones
u want to outlaw chickens ?
Just the bonless ones with bones.
A throwaway reference to another thread on here …. Someone tried to sue a restaurant when he choked on a bone in his boneless chicken wings. The court ruled he can’t sue because “boneless” is just a style of cooking and doesn’t make any claim about whether that meal has bones. …. That kind of misrepresentation, and dodging responsibility should be illegal. All sorts of scamming the customer should be illegal and isn’t
If I can go on a bit of a rant, I do believe in the power of the market to shape our lives, our economy, our society. Conservatives got that part right. But a market is only “free” when everyone plays by the same rules and has same facts and knowledge, free choice. A market is only beneficial when it is shaped by regulators to benefit society. A market is only sustainable when it incorporates externalities. If Conservatives are gung ho about free markets, they need to step up and do their part. While there’s a nice theory about the usefulness of Marketting, the primary use is to lie, subvert, fool, distort the market, and THAT should be illegal
Some.
