I'm sure millions of people make unregulated sandwiches at home just fine.
Yes, especially if your target market for those skateboard are kids / minors.
>I'm sure millions of people make unregulated sandwiches at home just fine.
If someone makes a sandwich for themselves incentives are aligned to prevent unhygienic practices. I'm not going to cut corners to maximize some different measure. If some restaurant produces food for me, they are incentivized to maximize profit margin, which is not directly aligned with my desire for non-dangerous food.
It is all about risk.
FDA enables civilization to grow above a certain threshold.
So the market incentivizes cost cutting but not too much of it.
Very little about that sandwich is unregulated. The bread they bought in the store is regulated. Whatever they put on the sandwich is regulated.
Without the FDA, companies would put profits above food safety.
What could I have done here to know that the sandwich is contaminated with salmonella before eating it?
If it is the government, then that is just the FDA with extra steps
I could imagine food companies funding it to keep their competitors in check, don't know how likely that is in practice
Maybe there could be a way to make the consumer pay for the service. Provide a website where customers pay a fee, enter the name of the product/restaurant then get their safety levels. You could even include fancy graphs and charts to sweeten the deal. How to do that profitably I dont know.
A sense of personal responsibility dilutes very quickly as more people get involved. This is a well researched dynamic in groups and collectives.
As it turns out, it's very easy to rationalize your own actions if you can defer your responsibility to a wider context. On an operational level: "My job - HR, SRE engineering, project management,... - didn't hurt anyone.", "I received an industry award last year for my work",... On a strategic level: "Too many people rely on us, so we can't fail.", "Our original mission didn't change.", "Our mission was, is and will be a net positive", ... Not just that, actually being convinced that those rationalizations are 100% true, and not being able to consciously notice how your own actions in a small, or large, way contribute to a negative impact. Just listen to testimonies of these people, the truly are convinced to their core that their work is a net positive for humanity.
> If I sell 400 million skateboards - do we need a regulatory board to approve skateboard design changes?
Suppose your design involves a wonky wheel. If you sell 10 skateboards, and 1 person falls, breaks their leg and decides to sue you for damages: that's a private problem between you and that person. If you sell 400 million skateboards, and millions of people people break their leg: that's a problem for the entirety of society.
Safety is also why car design is heavily regulated. Not necessarily to ensure individual safety, but to make sure that society, as a whole, isn't crippled by hundreds of thousands of people requiring care or getting killed in car accidents.
If you are able to sell 400 million skateboards, I sure hope there are regulations that enforce the safety of your product design.
You're on the verge of uncovering the actual meaning of personal responsibility.
A basic level of safety might mean that your skateboards sell faster, now that parents don't have to risk the health of their offspring.
Nobody really cares about you and your sandwich.
But whenever we introduce single point of risk into the society these needs to be managed.
Fair enough, you are personally responsible and don't eat the sandwich.
The rest of the US was not.
- at least you retain your right to claim "What did I say".
yes, because it's clear from history that companies can't be trusted to not cut corners to boost profits at the expense of consumer safety
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/oct/03/future-motion-...
So the answer to your question is, “yes, that needs to and did happen.”