In theory. But in reality how would I have ever known that ignition locks sometimes malfunction and turn off critical systems in the car. Or the air bags in my old Honda could propel metal fragments into my brain. Or that some guy's peanuts might kill my children. I sure as hell know that the manufacturers wouldn't have told us, they covered up for years until the government outed them.
What I said was not 'in theory' - my point was that your side wants "equality of result" - when it turns out that everyone is equally miserable, vs. "the equality of opportunity" - where people have the access to information. How each handles it is up to them. They have the best take on their particular situation - as with Andria and no socialization of info, is going to address anyone specifically.
What you listed were things the gov't imposed on Honda, VW, et al., and who approved of the peanut butter - as I noted in an earlier post - FDA - those 'assurances' that you want from gov't - they don't really provide. So it's up to you (or some cloud of similarly interested individuals). Aprivate company like UL listing or even Consumer Reports have much better info than the gov't on certain things and more reliable as well. If gov't didn't provide those things or if more people realized that gov't isn't very good at it, perhaps more jobs and opportunities would open up to other similar companies. They would survive by providing objective information rather than info bought and paid for by bribes and kick backs. If a private info company would do that, they'd be out of business.
Your orientation against - big corporations and evil businessmen is just a result of your education by people/and curricula with the same mindset, media and movies, which promote the same viewpoint where when real world stats vs. what is depicted in movies and TV comes no where close to what you see, where every boss is a polluter, sexist, racist, homophobe or a fraud or murderer. That's where your 'theory' doesn't match reality. Your utopia, in that sense, is the former USSR, East Germany and now North orea where no businesses allowed. China, no longer applies but your Mao's China would have.
I've never said the 'free market' is perfect. And it sometimes isn't 'pretty' - it can... as do some smoke and vapor evidently, "offend the senses", but it does no harm. When you allow consensual adults making consensual exchanges, you're going to also get gambling, drugs, prostitution and other vices ..... see my post here:
Counterpoint: This sin tax is not about protecting kids(Opinion)
... but it is only in those countries who have (or had like we have had) a free market economy that doesn't end in equal misery for all - which is the result of the non-free market countries, and in many cases purges/cleansing/genocide ( hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Milošević
) to name only a few - all socialists (and/or totalitarian where the gov't decides, not the individuals), where there are suicides, murder and corruption, and leaders who have all the money and power. Countries with free markets are the only places where there IS a middle class. Yet regulations and taxes that you support against evil businesses is what loses jobs, wages and the middle class.
