Obamacare is a great example of a Rube Goldberg machine. Pre-existing conditions are required to be covered, therefore insurance companies will lose money on their coverage, therefore there needs to be an “individual mandate” for everyone, regardless of desire, to purchase coverage, and “risk corridors” are set up to essentially pay insurance companies for lost profits. That’s just one paragraph in a bill that spans 20,000 pages. Some might argue that all of those regulations are eminently necessary, because the self-operating napkin will not work otherwise. Others may retort that there’s an easier way to wipe one’s mouth.
One of the major issues with these regulatory schemes is that high-IQ people who love details (and are extraordinarily boring at parties) are too caught up with their own Rube Goldberg machines to see the obvious. It is reminiscent of the character of Lucifer in John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Lucifer (or Satan) is highly intelligent and rational (which explains why he is God’s highest angel). However, he is banished from God’s heavenly kingdom because he attempts an insurrection, as he believes himself to be as high as God. Rationality falls in love with its own creation and falls. Regulation creates unforeseen issues, which are papered over by more regulations. Eventually what we’re left with is a 20,000-page bill which is almost predestined to fail.
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People wonder why Donald Trump got elected. They wonder why Hillary Clinton, with all her plans and all her legislative agenda items, was so disliked by the general population. They wonder why people in the “ignorant” Midwest can’t just accept that Obamacare is a great solution. CPAs wonder why people can’t see why Dodd-Frank regulations are stifling lending and the formation of new banks and capital funds. People can’t see why forcing restaurants to display calorie information on their menus leaves a bad taste in the mouths of small-time one-store Domino’s Pizza owners, and why people like that aren’t just building new stores. They wonder why Bernie Sanders’ solution to a hair salon owner who couldn’t pay for the healthcare of her employees was that maybe she shouldn’t be in business to begin with if she was so woefully under-capitalized.
There’s a reckoning coming in this country, in which the election of Donald Trump may be the opening salvo. If these proud Lucifers refuse to see why their rational and well-thought-out plans fail, maybe they should open their eyes and understand that logic, rationality, and high IQs aren’t everything. Maybe those “dumb rednecks” have a valid point.
Why Regulations Are Another Elite War Against Common Folk
One of the major issues with these regulatory schemes is that high-IQ people who love details (and are extraordinarily boring at parties) are too caught up with their own Rube Goldberg machines to see the obvious. It is reminiscent of the character of Lucifer in John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Lucifer (or Satan) is highly intelligent and rational (which explains why he is God’s highest angel). However, he is banished from God’s heavenly kingdom because he attempts an insurrection, as he believes himself to be as high as God. Rationality falls in love with its own creation and falls. Regulation creates unforeseen issues, which are papered over by more regulations. Eventually what we’re left with is a 20,000-page bill which is almost predestined to fail.
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People wonder why Donald Trump got elected. They wonder why Hillary Clinton, with all her plans and all her legislative agenda items, was so disliked by the general population. They wonder why people in the “ignorant” Midwest can’t just accept that Obamacare is a great solution. CPAs wonder why people can’t see why Dodd-Frank regulations are stifling lending and the formation of new banks and capital funds. People can’t see why forcing restaurants to display calorie information on their menus leaves a bad taste in the mouths of small-time one-store Domino’s Pizza owners, and why people like that aren’t just building new stores. They wonder why Bernie Sanders’ solution to a hair salon owner who couldn’t pay for the healthcare of her employees was that maybe she shouldn’t be in business to begin with if she was so woefully under-capitalized.
There’s a reckoning coming in this country, in which the election of Donald Trump may be the opening salvo. If these proud Lucifers refuse to see why their rational and well-thought-out plans fail, maybe they should open their eyes and understand that logic, rationality, and high IQs aren’t everything. Maybe those “dumb rednecks” have a valid point.
Why Regulations Are Another Elite War Against Common Folk
