| I'm pretty sure there are examples of at least (1), (2), (4), (6). But "go it at alone, and hope it catches on" is not how this would (or should) work. It should be made as automatic to do, as paying your taxes, getting police to arrest a thief, or passing a sanity inspection to open a restaurant. That's how society progresses as a society, when it makes what it wants the future to be either law or an custom/ethical thing that doing otherwise is frowned upon. Not when things are merely left up to each individual's goodwill to set an example. Doing it the formal way also e.g. makes it easier for an employeer to pay a good minimum wage AND still compete with other businesses of the same sector: since they all have to pay the same, it's a cost of doing business for everybody, not just for the "good heart" that opted to enforce it on its own (and is driven out of business by others undercutting him and paying worse). >Hasn’t this traditionally been the American way? People going out and trying to experiment and build the things they wish to see in the world? I don't know. For example, from my understanding of Us history, it took a whole civil war, riots, and federal laws accompanied with police intervention to e.g. force the end of slavery and deseggregation. Some good white souls going out and doing it on their own didn't manage to get far... |