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China's government is a weird hybrid
on paper it's communist but it's also a kleptocracy
which basically means the government is run by a small group
above the super-rich but it's also a free market paradise because there's
little to no regulation
and the captains of industry are part of the government
and they call all the shops while everybody else is brutally repressed
well we just learned that a factory in the city I love
calming was using pond water to make a rice
specifically pond were used for washing feet
also the official state broadcasting Group
CCTV release the results up an investigation
uncovering that ice served at a Beijing KFC location
had 13 times more bacteria then toilet water
also the New York Times reported
on a new trend in China buying and smuggling baby formula from overseas to
avoid potentially tainted Chinese milk
pointing to an increasing distrust domestic products
and how can we not mention but Chinese business without
the rat meat scandal from a couple months ago where
Chinese me companies were selling write me as if it was lay on
and to me the most damning factor fall
get this in the United States 4,000 chemicals are classified as harmful
in japan it's 10,000 in China
62 so
up why am I going through all these things and what I want to talk about
this so much well
look bottom line conservatives and libertarians
often say for you silly liberals business can regulate itself
and you don't need the FDA you don't need the government looking over their
shoulder and doing these
overburdened some regulations this over-regulation
up and my response is okay well here's your
no FDA at work here's your
government being run by the industry and the government not doing their job wish
is to me in independent watchdog for the actual citizens of China or the citizens
of a country
and my question is how they look to you are you Andrea so that
do you wanna have ice cubes that have thirteen times more bacteria than
toilet water do you want me to write me thinking it's
lamb do you wanna have to import
a baby formula because your baby formula is historically
painted at least adept in many instances do you want to have a listed chemicals
that is
only sixty two things that are banned while they
only use chemicals that are carcinogenic her
up chemical that are toxic in many different ways why because it's cheaper
to use those chemicals
and you can make a bigger profit margin even if that means that your client
you're gonna drop dead at the age of 52
now II know the counter-argument I for the argument so many times
they say well look man the free market will eventually
sore all these things out so what will happen is that business that sells the
tainted ice cubes are the baby for formula think people will stop going
there because the world will get out
and then you get the same end result which is that the
businesses shut down and they have to move towards doing better practices
there's only one
huge problem with that sometimes that takes time
sometimes it takes a couple months if not a couple years
and also by the way relies on the media not being in on it solve the media get
paid off by a crop business
and the media doesn't report on it then maybe people will never find out
that a product they're using might harm them down the road twenty years at
thirty years or whatever the case is because they can connect the dots
but even if the media does report on it again
so do you want people for months for years
to keep going there and keep getting sick when if you have any information
you have the data
you can pass a simple regulation it is pay just to let you know you can Poor's
poison them by using this chemical because it's really bad
well if you're against that I'm sorry but your ideology
trumps your reason your ideology trumps common sense because
obviously even if your favor all small-government
and less regulation that doesn't mean you should be a
at Oracle capitalist and say any rules are tech tantamount to
fascism or a dictatorship in out was $13.1 million 30 home
that's just a silly position and sadly enough there's many people
who actually believe that garbage