Re:Launch HN: Promise (YC W18) – Cost-effective, more humane...
by dragonwriter on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @05:29PM
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> Promise offers a perhaps much-needed band-aid but the entire system is broken and should be revisited.
That's actually my biggest fear with private services like Promise — a new for-profit bandaid both reduces the pressure to reform the underlying system just as it is gathering real steam, and creates a new set of parties with a profit interest in preserving the underlying system.
That's actually my biggest fear with private services like Promise — a new for-profit bandaid both reduces the pressure to reform the underlying system just as it is gathering real steam, and creates a new set of parties with a profit interest in preserving the underlying system.