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It is not on you. There is this idea, especially in the US, that government is bad and it should never regulate anything, and that consumers are responsible of
by gnulinux 7y ago
It is not on you. There is this idea, especially in the US, that government is bad and it should never regulate anything, and that consumers are responsible of everything bad happening in the world. The reality is, it's very easy to hide unethical parts of your business from consumers, so unless the consumer does an extraordinary job, they're going to make unethical decisions, anyway. It really is government's job to regulate industries so that they're not detrimental to the society.
- kazagistar 7y agoIn other words it's on you, but via the mechanisms of cooperation through democracy to enact government actions.
- gnulinux 7y agoYes and no. I unfortunately need to speak US-specific because this is where I live; but at least in the US people have almost no degree of freedom when it comes to electoral democracy since there are 2 parties and oftentimes the ballots are as simple as "blue or red" and then what ends up being passed in congress/senate is not close to what people want. It's really irresponsible to push all the responsibility to the people when they have very little way of affecting how their government passes laws.