Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal

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1. jartMay 2025
   Read "Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front" by Joel Salatin to learn about what the government did to farmers. The simple truth is you won't even have the ability to ask to be hired, because it will be illegal to demonstrate your skills in the first place.
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2. jartApr 2024
   Why are you advocating for the government to take control of open source projects? Is anyone here naïve enough to believe that, after being persuaded of the national security interests of these projects, they're just going to hand over money to the random people who maintain them to keep doing what they're doing? The U.S. Govt isn't Santa Claus. Look at what they did to the farming industry. Most people used to be farmers and now there aren't many farms at all, since most of it's being done by big companies. Applying that idea to open source means the government would use regulation to prevent community developers from having their software used in production, and all future work on open source code would have to be done by engineers at big tech companies. In many ways that's already the de facto system we have today. So if you get the government involved, it'll just become law, and the lone wolves in open source who big tech doesn't want to hire will be fined, sent to jail, etc. Read "Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal" by Joel Salatin.
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3. wegfawefgawefgNov 2023
   The less average a citizen is, the less accurately the democratic function approximates their interests.

   Additionally, our democratic function has strange domain mismatches were it has been overfit on unusual cases. Anyone who is more agency seeking than average will likely confront some vogonic laws and develop conflicting feelings.

   try the book Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal.

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4. corinroyalAug 2023
   I feel for you. You might enjoy a book from a small farmer called "Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal" by Joel Salatin. He talks about the absurdity of ag regulatory capture and it's effects on small farmers. It's an inspiring call to arms.
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5. microcolonelMay 2020
   Because of the extent of regulations on processing, chances are every part of that transaction would be illegal; from transferring the animals, transporting them, processing them (the thing we're lacking the capacity for, that is causing this need). Even if you could competently process them, you almost certainly would not be able to legally process them.

   There's a lovely book called Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal that I think every American who eats food or votes should read.

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6. equaluniqueSep 2019
   It's also pushed by genuine people. Read Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal by Joel Salatin.
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