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This is a good first step, but ultimately it's nothing but a band-aid. We need to make it illegal for toy manufacturers to negligently mis-plan for the holiday
by woah 5y ago
This is a good first step, but ultimately it's nothing but a band-aid.
We need to make it illegal for toy manufacturers to negligently mis-plan for the holidays, leaving millions of children disappointed.
If it is found that a toy manufacturer could have produced more stock, but failed to, through malice or incompetence, they should be fined at the very least.
- fhood 5y agoI can't think of too many downsides to making bot scalping illegal, making it illegal to misunderstand demand seems more fraught......unless this is sarcasm.
- savant_penguin 5y agoThis sounds extremely dystopian A simple underproduction (due to waste/risk avoidance or mere strategy) would create more litigation. Which companies do you think can afford this kind of regulation? The mom and pop shop or Walmart? Even if you ignore all of that, failure to sell enough sounds like a bizarre reason for a fine and would push the moral expectations of the law everyone has (murder, theft, violence except in self defense) even farther from the actual law of the land. To give you one example of such type of law, look at the subsidies the US taxpayers provide to billionaire sugar producers. You could easily argue that one of the most diabetic countries on the planet should not subsidize sugar, yet it still happens. These types of action lead me (and I expect others) to have a much lower respect for authority and the law