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> "While universal policy would be nice, it is both impractical to write and easy to avoid." rather, every law should scale with (economic and political) power
by clairity 5y ago
> "While universal policy would be nice, it is both impractical to write and easy to avoid."
rather, every law should scale with (economic and political) power, to create fairer markets, better representation, and more equitability, as conglomerates of any sort should be designed to benefit the public at large, not the principals only. for instance, fines for corporate malfeasance should be much higher proportionally than for small businesses (who have little/no market power). some laws try to approximate this with step functions, often a single cutoff (like "greater than 50 employees"), but those practically invite evasion (e.g., by creating 50-employee subsidiaries).
- CameronNemo 5y agoI wish our policy was so advanced. But we are policymaking at a lower level right now. Some people still think rent control is a good way to control shelter costs!
- clairity 5y agoin theory we shouldn't need rent control at all, but our housing markets are so distorted that i wouldn't support abolishing it until the even more distortive policies (like prop 13 in CA) are repealed first.