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Just pointing out that this analogy doesn't hold. Netflix's customer base running desktop Linux are a rounding error for the foreseeable future. 99% of any lend
by raisedbyninjas 7y ago
Just pointing out that this analogy doesn't hold. Netflix's customer base running desktop Linux are a rounding error for the foreseeable future. 99% of any lender's customers would be at least somewhat pleased to drop Equifax and none of them receive any benefit from using Equifax's service over their competitors.
- mlthoughts2018 7y agoThe amount of people who will actually demand a lender to omit Equifax is also complete roundoff error and insignificant compared with political dealing etc.
- SuoDuanDao 7y agoThat is a self-fulfilling prophecy with no utility to the people making it.
- mlthoughts2018 7y agoWhatever it is, it’s just a fact of human behavior, and to understand the world around us, we ought to be honest about such facts and investigate how best to live in a world where such facts are true. For instance, it might suggest that championing a grassroots boycott effort is a waste of time, and that perhaps putting that effort to lobby for laws by which these types of privacy breaches result in automatic prison time or high personal fines is a better option? Also not likely to succeed, but perhaps much more likely than asking rando consumers to not defect in their personal prisoner’s dilemma game with an unmoving corporate behemoth.
- SuoDuanDao 7y agoIt's quite impressive how thoroughly the american consumer has been demoralized by these supposedly unmoving corporations.