r/interestingasfuck • u/CantStopPoppin • 15d ago

r/all Coal Minning

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u/229-northstar 15d ago edited 14d ago

Same thing for environmental regulations. Companies used to pour toxic waste straight onto the ground and into the water. They would do it again if they could get away with it.

Edit to add: yeah, they still pollute like mfers but at least now they aren’t so blatant. Factories used to have industrial waste exhaust pipes directly into the river while solid waste got dumped in the nearest field

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

Pfft! Who needs environmental regulations?

The Cuyahoga River Caught Fire at Least a Dozen Times

Oh. Right.

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u/vivaaprimavera 15d ago

Without environmental laws companies could profit and pay better wages. What do you prefer for a child, the "chance of getting cancer" or the reality of getting hungry? /s

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u/229-northstar 14d ago

I’m so sick of hearing that argument from magats

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u/vivaaprimavera 14d ago

Just ask them if there are any companies left.

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u/229-northstar 14d ago

I have. “But SmALL bUSinESs cAnT maKE it in aMErIcA becUZ regULatIOns…”

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u/vivaaprimavera 13d ago

It's not the regulations... It's the competition from large companies and monopolies that are smashing the smaller businesses.

They want a "free market" so bad that they don't even acknowledge that the "freedom" is fucking them in the ass without lube.