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I think if that is the case and it proves to be a pervasive problem, the market will sort it out pretty cleanly. If Uber drivers assaulting people becomes suffi
by darawk 10y ago
I think if that is the case and it proves to be a pervasive problem, the market will sort it out pretty cleanly. If Uber drivers assaulting people becomes sufficiently common that people are willing to pay more, someone will create a solution to this problem.
This is something that the market should be able to solve extremely well on its own, without intervention from government. And there is no large correlated risk here or dearth of information for the public that should motivate the regulators to act.
- URSpider94 10y agoI'm familiar with that argument. However, we've clearly decided as a society that that's not the path we want to take. We decided that we want the government to protect us from some baseline of risks, so that we don't have to spend all our time on which transportation service has the highest risk of being murdered by your driver, or which restaurant has the lowest risk of infecting you with typhoid.
- darawk 10y agoYes, my point is that that baseline has swung too far towards protectionist interventionism.