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The problem with letting “the market” decide things like this is it requires first that someone gets hurt. Then they need to wage and information campaign again
by yoyohello13 2y ago
The problem with letting “the market” decide things like this is it requires first that someone gets hurt. Then they need to wage and information campaign against said company. Or we can just have a law that says this is bad and be done with it.
- sneak 2y agoUnchecked lawmaking hurts a lot more people than bad consumer products. We have a good system, and this video shows it functions well.
- ryandrake 2y agoWe have a terrible system, built around power disparity, dishonesty, unequal and difficult access to remedies for dishonesty, and this obsession with the idea that only individuals should act individually, and not collectively as a governing body, to prevent and punish harms.
- GavinMcG 2y agoHave you read enough history to know what life was like before we got rid of child labor, established weekends as a norm, regulated food products, etc.? Or do you assume that the free market provides those things because you’ve only lived in an age where you can take them for granted?
- yoyohello13 2y agoComments like these and knowing people like you are in charge make me fear for the future. Companies, unchecked, will kill as many people as they can to make more profit. History proves this, it’s not a hypothetical. Laws are the only lever we have to keep profit incentive aligned with the common good.