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The other problem is that the government is in on the joke. OSHA in my liberal state is about two people. Civil right claims are capped at 300 kUSD for a large employer. The existing laws are plainly insufficient to claim the rights that the citizens supposedly have. The present state of affairs really undermines government legitimacy.

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I think it can be dangerous to view "government" as a monolithic entity in cases like this.

So many of our consumer-protection laws are written by a tremendously adversarial system: one side does its level best to get solid, genuinely-effective protections in place, and the other side won't let them happen at all until they're hamstrung almost beyond their ability to function.

The study about the influence of the ultra-rich on policy in the US is 10 years old, and matters haven't gotten better since: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

It'd not wrong to view "the government" as something that is run by a small group whose interests are not congruent with the majority of the population, and experience shows this.

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