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This should be illegal. Its just anti consumer and anti competitive practices abusing the regulatory system to seek rent.
by blackeyeblitzar 3y ago
This should be illegal. Its just anti consumer and anti competitive practices abusing the regulatory system to seek rent.
- ranger_danger 3y agoMaybe, but it's also a bigger philosophical debate between positive and negative freedoms. Do you want the freedom for businesses to operate how they want, or do you want the freedom from unfair business practices? You can't really have both.
- soraminazuki 3y agoWhat? Unchecked capitalism doesn't ensure our freedoms. Quite the opposite, unless you're talking about freedom of the rich to screw over others.
- datavirtue 3y agoCapitalism looks like game theory, where instead of universal cooperation you have every actor working to restrict or steal information from other actors and generally finding ways to insulate yourself to a point where you can just keep hitting the defect button.
- ClumsyPilot 3y agoDo you want freedom from extortion and racketeering? If you do, are you not against free market? Do you want collusion and cartels to be legal? If you do, are you not against free market? It seems the entire distinction of negative vs positive freedom is fictitious.a negative freedom can be a positive freedom when looked at from another perspective
- ranger_danger 3y agoIt's philosophy all the way down, wikipedia style.
- sophacles 3y agoIf businesses operated the way they want, they would take 100% of everyone's money and provide nothing of value. Everything else they do is just an inconvenient step on the way to the goal.
- IG_Semmelweiss 3y agoIf businesses operated the way they want...they would nit be businesses, they would be cartels....or governments! Businesses operate like the customers want unless the govt tells them to do otherwise. In this case the paying customer is an insurance company who could care less if the medical device was deprecated, or not, after its expected value was delivered
- ClumsyPilot 3y ago> Businesses operate like the customers want Like feeding cows chucked poop, and then selling meat of cows infected with bird flu directly to consumers.