Noah Feldman: Trump's anti-regulation era has already begun

-      Robert McLean

Labor Secretary Thomas Perez oversaw
 implementation of new rules to make
 an estimated 4 million more American
workers eligible for overtime pay but that
change was blocked last week by a federal judge.

Regulation is the nexus of a good society.

Regulation is also the key to the mitigation of the excesses of society that have manifested themselves as climate change.

Regulation and its myriad implications are disliked by neoliberal groups and their right-wing counterparts until they can see and employ some restriction on society that ensures an easier route to increasing their profits.

Governments such as that about to be set up in America by Donald Trump abhors the idea of regulation and yet confusingly strongly endorse law and order and quickly goals anyone who offends the regulations they introduce and support.

Anarchy, the natural endpoint of anti-regulation, frightens the likes of Donald Trump and his cohort and so while there is a noted disdain for regulation, those limits on what should and shouldn’t happen can only be dispensed with while the profits for just a few continue to mount.

The broader health and general wellbeing of society are only of import to ensure the maintenance of a consumerist society, and so ever-increasing and continuing profit, regardless of the costs to society and the planet.

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