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Nah man, externalities here means externalities. In this specific instance the meat producing corporations are not paying for the increased risk of producing an
by lovich 4y ago
Nah man, externalities here means externalities. In this specific instance the meat producing corporations are not paying for the increased risk of producing antibiotic resistant pathogens, which is a cost the rest of the planet has to bear. Price them in the same way any insurance model prices in risk.
> how would you do so and retain a nominally free society?
Nominally free doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want. Your right to swing your fist ends at my nose, as the saying goes. If you want to take actions that affect everyone negatively then you should be paying for that. Inversely there are also positive externalities and we should probably subsidize/pay groups who produce those