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Are you suggesting an entirely free-market approach is the right answer, with not even any safety regulations on products/industry?

Also when did liberal and free-thinking mean someone was supposed to be in support of allowing costs to be externalized on to others?

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Proponents of green energy and electrification of various domestic items are perfectly willing to support externalising various costs onto others, just to give one example.

Edit: Allow a lithium mine, or a rare earth processing plant, or an electrical waste site, in your back yard, and be happy that it provides employment for those around you, and then we can talk.

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