Today's OneWord: Regulation

They told us that regulation wasn't necessary for the economy to flourish. They chided us about profits and bottom lines and quarterly expectations. I guess they were okay with the children getting poisoned by their own toys laced with lead. Or they didn't mind our pets choking on their own food. Or they shrugged as norovirus spread like wildfire across restaurant chains. Or they didn't care that the pristine lakes in our country gradually mutated into toxic sludge.

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