Interesting reading about the MSF's hidden agenda

[unixronin]

This article seems to imply the Motorcycle Safety Foundation isn't as lily-white and benevolent as we've all been led to believe, at the management level.

Comments

[sierra-nevada.livejournal.com]

This is the standard problem with the (nominally) free market. Once you get big enough, you begin to lobby the government to warp the rules of your market in your favor.

This is why anti-trust/anti-monopoly laws and an enforcement bureau must exist.

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

Bah. More government isn't the answer. We just need to start shooting politicians who abuse their position of authority and grant legal favors to private entities.

-Ogre

[sierra-nevada.livejournal.com]

Wrong target. The business men and women who ask for such favors need killin'.

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

I disagree. Those who betray the trust of their positions deserve the traditional punishment for traitors.

I will say, however, that you might not have to work very hard to convince me that their temptors deserve that fate as well.

So, perhaps, not "wrong target" so much as "too narrow a scope".

-Ogre

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Them, you just tar and feather and ride out of town on a rail. They're not betraying a trust, they're just being a little too greedy about doing their jobs.