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I agree it's nothing new that scams exist, and that is my point. Our response to bad actors was never to just give up and stop trusting anyone. In most societie
by newswasboring 3y ago
I agree it's nothing new that scams exist, and that is my point. Our response to bad actors was never to just give up and stop trusting anyone. In most societies people tried to solve the problem by regulations or making laws etc. We get new iterations of these issues every generation. Why have we suddenly decided this time it's not worth it to fight it?
- kevincox 3y agoHave these regulations or laws ever been particularly effective? They may stop legitimate companies but AFAICT never really stopped the "anonymous" scammers. This makes it more like a form of establishing trust like I was talking about originally. It gives us a way to trust established companies, but not a way to trust everyone.
- newswasboring 3y agoThey have never been perfect, but they have been effective enough that we didn't go around saying "trust no one". There is a difference between saying "don't trust everyone" and "trust no one". And I feel like we have more of the latter now than the former.