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Re:Facebook Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Buy Tbh by philipov on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @09:11AM (#15549763)
You can't build a policy on "Maybe people will just be nice?".

Aggregate economic decisions are not based on values, they are based on systematic incentives.

If society operated on altruistic values, it would have never invented government.

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Re:Facebook Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Buy Tbh by coldtea on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @10:57AM (#15550640)
>If society operated on altruistic values, it would have never invented government.

This assumes there are no coordination, planning and other services that the government offers.

At best, society would never had invented the police.

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