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> So what you are saying is that it is impossible to regulate? No, it would be difficult to regulate, at scale. Just like most things are difficult at scale an
by ToucanLoucan 3y ago
> So what you are saying is that it is impossible to regulate?
No, it would be difficult to regulate, at scale. Just like most things are difficult at scale and history is awash with corporate whining about how doing anything at all to mitigate the harm they do will annihilate them, capitalism and the concept of the free market.
"You can't possibly expect us to get all the children out of the coal mines!"
"How can we function as a business if we have to pay negroes the same wages as whites?"
"The requirement that we have to store pesticides away from employee break rooms is government overreach!"
- randomdata 3y ago> No, it would be difficult to regulate, at scale. The earlier comment pointed out that the regulation already exists. It is just not being regulated – as said to be because it is impossible to regulate. Perhaps you mean it is difficult to regulate? Which is the exact same thing the earlier commenter said. I mean, sure, in some hypothetical world where there are no constraints one could conceive of how it would be possible to regulate, but in the real world where people have other, competing concerns and only so much time in the day, is there actually the will to regulate it? Without the will then it is, indeed, impossible.