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People? This seems to be a cultural trend in the US in particular. In many other countries the value of laws, social services, anti-trust and anti-corruption regulations, and so on, are rightly seen as necessary and desirable.

Unfortunately the US is very influential globally, in various ways. eg trade agreements, or just brutally implementing neo-liberal economics on weak countries they can coerce economically and/or militarily.

The US has also (having effectively no anti-trust for decades) has let many corporations based or founded there grow to unprecedented sizes and power.

Theres also other countries /areas (Jersey, Cayman Islands, etc.) that make a business of tailoring their laws to allow corporations to avoid paying taxes, pollute, hide data, censor journalists etc.

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I think you are generalizing a bit too much and also injecting a false dichotomy that you are either for or against regulation as a concept.

Regulation in the abstract is neither good nor bad, the particulars of the regulation are what is important.

You can be critical and suspicious of onerous government regulations while still appreciating that there are many reasonable uses for regulations.

I dunno, I think there is a significant sentiment in the US that regulation is bad, period. There was the idea that Trump floated that was quite popular with his base that they would blanket eliminate 2 regulations for every one enacted.

Regulation (except for environmental ones) tend to violate the non-aggression principle and are thus not preferable (it's basically the government using it's monopoly on legitimate use of force to determine on what terms people interact in the market). A non-coercive solution would be to incentivize/negotiate better terms of service, as suitable.

You are generalizing too much. Even harsh critics of government regulation are rarely if ever willing to say there should be NO regulations or that ALL regulations are "bad".

You haven't been paying attention to harsh critics of government regulation apparently. Lots of them say exactly that, and they overlap with the "taxes are theft" loonies.

> People? This seems to be a trend in the US. In many other countries the value of laws, social services, anti-trust and anti-corruption regulations, and so on are rightly seen as necessary and desirable.

That's fair. Should've been more specific about that, it's a very American thing.

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