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Yes. They've helped us find that: no, once we have a reputation economy, we don't need the government to tell us who we can safely get in a car with.
by polarix 13y ago
Yes. They've helped us find that: no, once we have a reputation economy, we don't need the government to tell us who we can safely get in a car with.
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- gamblor956 13y agoAnd as Yelp, eBay, and other reputation sites have shown us, it turns out that reputation economies are useless once everyone rates every transaction/buyer/seller 5 stars.
- patcon 13y agoYou've never filtered for the bad reviews? Also, is it possible that you're only seeing the uninteresting storm of 5-stars because the "interesting" merchants don't survive? (I honestly have no idea if this is the case.)
- patcon 13y agoExactly. Now that we can make informed decision, we can excise the social/financial cost of regulation and its administration, in exchange for accepting the risk (of making our own informed decision). I'm a progressive liberal fwiw, not a libertarian.
- Touche 13y agoBut "reputation economy" means someone gets to be the guinea pig.