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With any sufficiently large industry if that industry produces externalities powerful lobbies will emerge to make the harms as unclear and detached from the ind
by jwie 3y ago
With any sufficiently large industry if that industry produces externalities powerful lobbies will emerge to make the harms as unclear and detached from the industry as possible.
We only see the failures of this activity. There are many more big lobby success stories, where the externalities a line of business produces are removed from public discourse. In some cases, veggie libel laws for one, the lobby is so successful that criticism is practically illegal.