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Any student of history can explain that America has had this debate many times for almost all new technologies that grow dominant. The railroads spurred heavy r

Any student of history can explain that America has had this debate many times for almost all new technologies that grow dominant. The railroads spurred heavy regulation because they didn't treat all customers the same. The trucking industry too. When companies become large enough, citizens get upset when they're not treated equally and they start complaining to lawmakers who often do something.

EarlKing 5y ago
Well, more precisely: Lawmakers will do absolutely nothing until a combination of a sufficient number of organized voters and pissed off businesses being discriminated against decide that lawmakers need to do something or be replaced by those who will... then, quite suddenly, government becomes very efficient. Amazing how that works.