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This has nothing to do with regulatory capture, this is libertarian philosophy in action. Essentially the view that government should never be allowed to regula

This has nothing to do with regulatory capture, this is libertarian philosophy in action. Essentially the view that government should never be allowed to regulate industry. And the belief that if businesses are ever doing something most view as wrong, a new company will spring up to make money on fixing it so the problem will go away. No matter how many times that's been shown to be wrong, many people still believe it. The best part is they argue in support of it with the tautology of "if it's a problem then a business will fix it. And then someone points out all the problems that business has not fixed, their response is 'see well it must not be a problem'". Completely ignoring all of the structural reasons why it doesn't get fixed. And that how we get this rampant collection of "data brokers", and all of our data being captured and sold by every platform.

bigbadfeline 1y ago
> "This has nothing to do with regulatory capture, this is libertarian philosophy in action." You mean libertarian "philosophers" enacting their libertarian philosophy by means of a successful regulatory capture... has nothing to do with regulatory capture? > "And the belief that if businesses are ever doing something most view as wrong, a new company will spring up to make money on fixing it so the problem will go away... No matter how many times that's been shown to be wrong, many people still believe it." "Many people" is quite an euphemism for "people who benefit from such believes" which includes all business people of any significance along with everyone they pay to spread said believes.