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If paying enough to incentivize vendors to share the secret works, and why wouldn’t it, how is that not a ”real” solution?
by Cederfjard 5y ago
If paying enough to incentivize vendors to share the secret works, and why wouldn’t it, how is that not a ”real” solution?
- yunohn 5y agoI’m not sure where you’re coming from in this discussion. Nobody is saying bribery won’t work in such situations. But you do understand that the author is a journalist (1), and really just aiming to research for an article that presents some intriguing material, right? Not a roadside snacks competitor, with a large budget to spend on getting these sellers to exfiltrate supply chain intel. (1) https://www.atlasobscura.com/users/mediabarkha?view=articles https://www.atlasobscura.com/users/mediabarkha?view=articles
- Cederfjard 5y agoI didn’t understand from the phrasing in your initial comment that you were saying ”yeah that could’ve worked, but it wouldn’t have been economically feasible for her to do that just for the sake of an article, so it’s not an actual solution in this context”. So I was genuinely wondering why you thought that wasn’t a real solution. Like you had philosophical objections to doing journalism in that way. But now I’m following.
- yunohn 5y agoWhy would you not read the entirety of my comment, and miss the context behind “not a real solution”? If you reread it, you’ll see the the gist of it was the same as my follow-up.