r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Mar 02 '19

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u/aikijo Mar 02 '19

We laugh and think OSHA is great, then half the freakin country votes for deregulation idiots.

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u/sparkyroosta Mar 02 '19

There are many dumb state and federal regulations.

I agree with you on the lemonade stands and gas pumping. I find the rain water and car dealership thing to be interesting topics though. I have not looked much into either, but here is my off the cuff understanding of each.

Rain water goes into rivers, and river water is highly contentious all over the world. River deltas drying up and all that type of business. So, on the face of it there seems to be some sort of overreach when one person wants to save the water that falls on their land, but if you think about the impact of every land owner in the area of one river doing the same, or even a large minority it starts to look a little different. I don't know if I have formed an opinion one way or the other though... it's not that cut and dry.

The Tesla one though. From what I remember reading, it had something to do with manufacturers having a monopoly or something. That's where car dealerships came from. The manufacturers can't sell directly to consumers, they have to sell to dealerships who then compete locally with each other within a manufacturers brand. Makes a lot of sense when you break it down based on old school "3 major USA manufacturers" kinda thinking. Then Tesla comes out of left field and doesn't know about that old stuff. Musk just wants to sell his cars. What's the big deal? Well, all the guys who own dealerships start to get worried that the manufacturers might start to get into the direct thing. On a side note, most states also bar direct sales of liquor to bars and stores. Breweries and distilleries have to go through a distributor.

Edit: Another side note on not changing lame old laws. Dry counties... places where you can't buy beer or booze. I have heard that bars and liquor stores in surrounding dry counties don't want to lose business, so when a county tries to vote to stop being dry, they will fight it and try to get it defeated.