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It really does feel like we’re living in bizzaro world. If you want to make recommendations based on evidence, make sure it doesn’t impact the profits of powerf
by vegetablepotpie 4y ago
It really does feel like we’re living in bizzaro world. If you want to make recommendations based on evidence, make sure it doesn’t impact the profits of powerful groups.
Many negative things we see in public policy stem from this fact. Lack of right to repair, lack of broadband in America, lack of cyber security in corporations, US tax law.
Maybe you like your meat. That’s fine. You can make decisions for your self, but we should at least be able to acknowledge the impacts of those decisions.
I think the solution is to blanket ban corporate speech. It really is different than individuals speaking and we need to acknowledge that.
- karmakurtisaani 4y agoYou know, I'm also fine with people eating meat. I just would like them to pay for the damage they cause, and would not like to subsidise their consumption with my tax money.
- revelio 4y ago"I think the solution is to blanket ban corporate speech. It really is different than individuals speaking" Does that apply to universities, government employees and claims about the "consensus" too? Or are they all individuals?
- incone123 4y ago"I think the solution is to blanket ban corporate speech." How will you ban corporate shills?
- vintermann 4y agoIt shouldn't be all that hard, really. We ban prostitution (whether we should or not is another question). It's the same principle: you can do the thing as much as you like, but you can't pay people for it. It doesn't have to be strict. It doesn't have to be two sided. For simplicity, maybe you want to only ban the paying side. Say there can't be a post in your budget that says "influence politicians for favourable legislation" if you're an LLC. How limited liability corporations spend money is already pretty monitored, for obvious reasons, so it wouldn't be that hard.
- incone123 4y agoProstitution is an example of a ban that's almost totally ineffective, but your points about LLCs seem reasonable to this non expert.
- dragonwriter 4y agoIt’s effective at its purpose, its purpose just isn’t stopping the conduct banned.
- felurx 4y agoWhat is the purpose, then?
- dragonwriter 4y agoMarginalizing sex workers.
- vintermann 4y agoThere's no actual benefit to that, so I'm not sure it's the reason.
- dragonwriter 4y agoThere are people who benefit from it; there’s no (or negative) net social benefit, but that’s true of lots of the things that motivate laws.
- vintermann 4y agoWho benefits from sex workers being marginalized?
- dragonwriter 4y ago