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Sounds nice in theory, but after decades of everything running smoothly, people forget just how instrumental certain laws were to ensure that stability.

It's a lot like anti-vaxers, anti-pasteurization, and other anti-science fads. And I can point to the repeal of banking regs like Glass-Steagall which resulted in the ~2007 financial crisis and recession. Including a post-it note on a law isn't going to give future people the same perspective as someone who lived through the issues first-hand. If that worked, we wouldn't have voters repeatedly supporting politicians who make the same insane promises that never work.



Not to mention cryptocurrencies, which are currently speedrunning the history of financial crises and the regulations they inspired.


Seems like those financial regulations have caused people to forget that if something sounds too good to be true, it ain't.




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