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What kind of precedent is there for this pattern working successfully, long term, in any industry? 'Review companies' get sabotaged all the time if they were ev
by jrajav 3y ago
What kind of precedent is there for this pattern working successfully, long term, in any industry? 'Review companies' get sabotaged all the time if they were ever reliable at all. I sure wouldn't want to rely on one for medicine I give to my family if it was anything like relying on Yelp for a decent restaurant. I'm not at all convinced that the open market is a valid locale for these incentives - it seems to come with inherent conflict of interest.
Maybe it's reasonable for us to agree that some kinds of oversight are worth funding as a society without waiting for incentives to sprout up out of the ground.
- JoshTriplett 3y agoTo be explicitly clear, I also think it might be a good idea to have a government-funded review laboratory in this context. (I don't automatically think it would thereby be uncorruptible, or even harder to corrupt, but guaranteeing its existence seems important.) But there's a huge difference between "review" and "prohibit".