History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Name one way in which maintaining a minimum standard of goods and services realistically is a negative thing.
Keep in mind, much of the crap we end up getting by shipping manufacturing overseas to China has been proven to contain hazardous materials, so we're paying a cost for that cheap service in the form of our health.
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If you think big business realistically views any small startup as a serious threat, and has at all since the inception of the idea of business, you've got another thing coming.
The rare small startup can come in and cleanup, but without government regulation, 99% of the time you'd end up with a Carnegie Steel type situation where a well established large business strangles any potential competitor.
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That license you obtain is specifically tied to your ability to prove you store, prepare, and serve the food in a safe manner
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Why the hell do you think they mandate you get one? For the fun of it? To specifically answer your question about who said anything about it, I did. Did you only read the first sentence of my post and respond just to that?
But yes, you're point is true yet trivial. Having a license won't guarantee that Bob isn't going to put cyanide in his burritos and kill people. But I do not see any conceivable scenario where letting anyone sell food as they wish is safer than requiring them all to take classes and demonstrate their ability to safely prepare food.
I never said that.
I said society is built on certain ideals, things we should strive toward.
You can't honestly tell me you can't differentiate between the two.
No I think you're thinking about life in the jungle here. You are still thinking like the caveman. Capitalism in civilized society is about prosperity of the fittest. However if you do believe people who get the short end of the stick should just keel over and die slowly you are welcome to move out of the first world country that lays claim to civilized society and thus civilized capitalism and move to a third world country.
You can't "have no skills" and be able to cook. Cooking is a skill.
They can go sell tacos on the corner of the street, if they want to apply for a street vendor's license. They still have to demonstrate that the food meets minimum health standards, though, to get that license, because the government has a vested interest in making sure the population doesn't get poisoned by shoddy cooking practices.
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I apologize, I should have specified "prosperity" of the fittest. I figured given we are not speaking of a third world country, and people are not dying of starvation in the streets, that the reference to the coined phrase survival of the fittest would be seen as entirely metaphorical but, this is the internet. I still find that your beliefs are entirely idealistic without any basis or reference to actual economics.
In the end, the more people there are available to fill a position, the less each individual's service is worth. This is not some cold-hearted opinion of the world you seem to think I have of people, this is merely a basic law of economics. Does it suck? Yes. That doesn't change the fact that it is true.
That's why we have welfare and unemployment benefits and such. If a surfer dude can take advantage of welfare to eat lobsters and sushi and shit, I seriously doubt that Mr. Cook can't just use some welfare money to get his license.
Also, high minimum requirements for a minimum wage job? Are you telling me that there's someone who can cook but can't make a Mcburger?
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I can't cook.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people - Martin Luther King, Jr.
That must be why all those high school students and college students working towards their mcbachelors are working at McD already.
I'd also like to add that there is no politician stupid enough to try removing food regulations, because their head will be the first to roll when Timmy dies from a badly prepared fish stick from the guy with the cart on 5th Avenue. Or the second head; the fish stick guy's head might roll first.