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You know, if you write all your arguments in capslock they will be even more persuasive.

There is no homogenous group of "capitalists". Many regulations are the product of collective wishes of 99% and its absurd to blame some non-existent group for lobbying against "any and all" effective regulation.

I swear someday I will write browser extension to analyze and hide such hand-wavy arguments like this one.




In the example of overfishing, there is no group lobbying against "any and all" regulation.

But the owner of the fishery/cannery is lobbying against quotas, the owner of the fishing boat is lobbying against worker protections that would slow down the harvest, and the restauranteurs sure have a significant interest in keeping the price of fish as low as possible.

Heterogeneous groups, acting in their own interests, end up working towards the same goal - preventing regulation that would slow overfishing. That's the tragedy of the commons.




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