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> The only way to kill this, apart from government intervention (which has no chance of happening in the US) is to let the “free market” do it by rejecting jobs

> The only way to kill this, apart from government intervention (which has no chance of happening in the US) is to let the “free market” do it by rejecting jobs that leak your information to Equifax (and letting them know why). This will _only_ change through government intervention. The “free market” won’t solve this.

dylan604 4y ago
The "free market" created this
- easrng 4y ago
  The "free market" is great at creating problems.
  - teitoklien 4y ago
    The free market is great at creating solutions. Something planned economy based governments are incompetent at. Evil humans sometimes make bad solutions in a free market. Let’s stop blaming systems and start blaming humans for their corrupt & greedy behaviour. Fighting about systems only helps corrupt politicians topple each other from place of power. Hence the funding that goes into obsession over capitalism, socialism, communism debates.
    - auggierose 4y ago
      Systems not taking into account that humans can behave in a corrupt and greedy way are just bad systems. We can totally blame those systems.
  - jwarden 4y ago
    That’s like saying “people” are great at creating problems. It is a true but unbalanced and unhelpful statement, since people are also great at solving problems.
- kelnos 4y ago
  Which has no bearing on whether or not the "free market" (not that such a thing actually exists) can stop it.
  - CogitoCogito 4y ago
    > Which has no bearing on whether or not the "free market" (not that such a thing actually exists) can stop it. How does it have _no_ bearing on whether the market can stop it? If the status quo is the result of market forces, one should at least consider the possibility that market forces will not result in anything different. I think maybe you meant to say that market forces _might_ still stop this even if they have not done it so far. That is a bit more defensible.

dylan604 4y ago

The "free market" created this

easrng 4y ago
The "free market" is great at creating problems.
- teitoklien 4y ago
  The free market is great at creating solutions. Something planned economy based governments are incompetent at. Evil humans sometimes make bad solutions in a free market. Let’s stop blaming systems and start blaming humans for their corrupt & greedy behaviour. Fighting about systems only helps corrupt politicians topple each other from place of power. Hence the funding that goes into obsession over capitalism, socialism, communism debates.
  - auggierose 4y ago
    Systems not taking into account that humans can behave in a corrupt and greedy way are just bad systems. We can totally blame those systems.
- jwarden 4y ago
  That’s like saying “people” are great at creating problems. It is a true but unbalanced and unhelpful statement, since people are also great at solving problems.
kelnos 4y ago
Which has no bearing on whether or not the "free market" (not that such a thing actually exists) can stop it.
- CogitoCogito 4y ago
  > Which has no bearing on whether or not the "free market" (not that such a thing actually exists) can stop it. How does it have _no_ bearing on whether the market can stop it? If the status quo is the result of market forces, one should at least consider the possibility that market forces will not result in anything different. I think maybe you meant to say that market forces _might_ still stop this even if they have not done it so far. That is a bit more defensible.