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This is equivalent to USPS opening your mail because they were tipped off of wrongdoing against their company, with no evidence whatsoever. Do you have a proble

by FD3SA 13y ago

This is equivalent to USPS opening your mail because they were tipped off of wrongdoing against their company, with no evidence whatsoever. Do you have a problem with that? Well too bad, its "their" mail. Randian utopia at its finest.

mahyarm 13y ago
What does this have to do with ayn rand or libertarians?
- chc 13y ago
  Many Randians believe that a free and unregulated capitalist market is the best solution to most problems. This is being put forth as an example of a problem with allowing private corporations such a central role in society without any oversight beyond the "invisible hand" of the market.
  - mahyarm 13y ago
    This is situation I feel would not matter in this case. We live in a very regulated societies and corporations always have had a very central role as it is. Go further into the past and just replace corporations with the elites, the wealthy and the aristocracy. Very regulated and large governments easily produce the series of financial and human rights disasters we have seen in the past decade. It's still buyer beware. Don't use services which say they can look at your email if they want to. Self-interested organizations and people will act self interested, it's a bit of a no-brainer.
  - xtreme 13y ago
    In this example no government oversight would probably work much better. If a carrier starts opening your mails, they would lose their customer base and other services would come up. Also, you could probably stipulate this in the terms of service so that you can have a legal recourse if the carrier violates the contract. With government intervention, all carriers would be subject to government bullying, legal or otherwise. Which scenario would you prefer?
    - okasaki 13y ago
      I think it's been shown many times that the depth of consumer considerations of technical and ethical issue is about as deep as a puddle. Most of people simply have neither the background nor time to understand them, and simply assume that whoever's on top is doing things right.

by FD3SA 13y ago

mahyarm 13y ago

What does this have to do with ayn rand or libertarians?

chc 13y ago
Many Randians believe that a free and unregulated capitalist market is the best solution to most problems. This is being put forth as an example of a problem with allowing private corporations such a central role in society without any oversight beyond the "invisible hand" of the market.
- mahyarm 13y ago
  This is situation I feel would not matter in this case. We live in a very regulated societies and corporations always have had a very central role as it is. Go further into the past and just replace corporations with the elites, the wealthy and the aristocracy. Very regulated and large governments easily produce the series of financial and human rights disasters we have seen in the past decade. It's still buyer beware. Don't use services which say they can look at your email if they want to. Self-interested organizations and people will act self interested, it's a bit of a no-brainer.
- xtreme 13y ago
  In this example no government oversight would probably work much better. If a carrier starts opening your mails, they would lose their customer base and other services would come up. Also, you could probably stipulate this in the terms of service so that you can have a legal recourse if the carrier violates the contract. With government intervention, all carriers would be subject to government bullying, legal or otherwise. Which scenario would you prefer?
  - okasaki 13y ago
    I think it's been shown many times that the depth of consumer considerations of technical and ethical issue is about as deep as a puddle. Most of people simply have neither the background nor time to understand them, and simply assume that whoever's on top is doing things right.