Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by WalterBright 1 hour ago
If your business is large enough, if you don't donate to politicians, they will target your business.

The government is massive and inserts itself into business operations all the time. The inevitable results happen.

1 comments

There ARE regulations for sure. But they exist to protect the population at large. For example, food safety laws were not created out of government hostility but rather because food was unsafe. Read (or read about) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair if you want to get creeped out about the food industry in the 1930s before regulations