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Smiling Knight posted:Who is going to measure these externalities? Are they the enforcers or merely observers? If the latter, who actually enforces them? What about the fact that corporations can afford far better lawyers and experts that the people of some random small town who might be affected? What organization is going to be proactively testing how new technologies affect the environment, as opposed to simply reacting after things go wrong? And so on and so forth. There's an implied belief in libertarianism that there's no such thing as power discrepancies. The lawyer you have access to and the lawyer that Megacorp Inc. have access to are exactly the same.
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Rowling obviously just worked several billion times harder than Mr. Self-published Author. Edit: Ironically, using money as a metric (the only valid metric), she worked thousands of times harder than Ayn Rand. Davethulhu fucked around with this message at 05:34 on May 31, 2014 |
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VitalSigns posted:Yeah I get that that's their answer, but (even ignoring the massive counterexample of all human history where tons of people do business with criminals, join the mafia, support the KKK, etc), it still raises the question: if ostracism and reputation are such ironclad guarantors of nonaggression, why is there even a market for the policing and enforcement functions of DROs? Who would pay for police protection when apparently everyone is too conscious of getting bad Yelp reviews to dare commit a crime? You only have to look at Yelp to see the likely trajectory of any reputation system. quote:I have had dozens of attorneys ask me about the benefit of posting reviews on Yelp. Quite honestly, I cannot recommend it at this time. I have had far too many attorneys tell me how they received their first negative review on Yelp followed quickly by a sales call asking if they wanted to advertise.
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