Putting aside the predations of the IRS, I wonder how much Edison would have accomplished if he'd had OSHA and the EPA to deal with. And you can bet Bonior, Dingell, and Waxman would have been all over him.
For a decade I've thought about that. What tremendously beneficial technologies, products and services do we not have because of parasitical elites feeding of the backs of seed-entrepreneurs and researchers. If the church had it's way seven hundred years ago we'd still be living in the Dark Ages. In a sense we are still living in the Dark Ages.
Technologies we don't have because the government put such burdens on the inventors that they couldn't afford to bring them to market. For example, in the 1960s research scientists at Dupont were working on a very promising cure for cancer, but it was squashed by the FDA. The list of government doing the opposite, abusing rather than protecting the greatest benefactors of society, is thousands of abuses.
Just tonight on 20/20 John Stossel did a piece on government harming people and society by squashing technology research.
There has to be something sinister about a fellow getting rich through his own hard work and ingenuity, especially if technological advancement is involved.
Obviously that is sarcasm. The people have a most profound reason for welcoming the Ultimate Battle.
Value Destroyers versus Value Producers
If civilization had to chose between business/science and government/bureaucracy, eliminating the other, which is the better choice?
The first thing civilization must have is business/science. It's what the family needs so that its members can live creative, productive, happy lives. Business/science can survive, even thrive without government/bureaucracy.
Government/bureaucracy cannot survive without business/science. In general, business/science and family is the host and government/bureaucracy is a parasite.
Aside from that, keep valid government services that protect individual rights and property. Military defense, FBI, CIA, police and courts. With the rest of government striped away those few valid services would be several fold more efficient and effective than they are today.
Underwriters Laboratory is a private sector business that has to compete in a capitalist market. Underwriters laboratory is a good example of success where government fails.
Any government agency that is a value to the people and society could better serve the people by being in the private sector where competition demands maximum performance.
Wake up America! We are the host. They are the parasites. We don't need them. They need us.