Because the free market is supposed to self regulate or something similar. See, no consumer would ever buy PFOAs… wait. I mean no consumer would ever put microp

Because the free market is supposed to self regulate or something similar. See, no consumer would ever buy PFOAs… wait. I mean no consumer would ever put microplastics in their… hold on. I mean who would buy products made with slave lab… I mean surely any company with anti-consumer practices will not stay in business for long… Perhaps we should get with the times and accept that Goodhart’s Law applies to the measures of capitalism. A consumer can absolutely be poisoned or cheated by a product satisfying all commonly accepted quality criteria. As soon as those criteria are agreed upon by the market, they become targets to manipulate.