Re:The Tech Industry Is Building a Vast Digital Underclass
by anigbrowl on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @08:03PM
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No, I don't want extra choice if it comes at the expense of exploitation. I don't want to waste my time having to assess every product and vendor for ethical quality, I want to know that when I'm purchasing everyday goods and services that I can rely on a certain baseline level of equity across the entire commercial marketplace. It creates economic inefficiency by introducing unwanted information asymmetries into the market that hurt both consumers and labor.
Why is this good? Do you not want to have access to a wide array of foods? Isn't it nice to have blueberries? Isn't it good that someone can have a farm as their family business and make it work, agriculturally? Would it somehow be better to just let that land do nothing while we all drink Soylent?
I'm not a free market absolutist. If I was, I'd have no problem with illegal labour or buying from slave labour in some other country. Yes, I am afraid of a completely free market, because I understand the Tragedy of the Commons. It doesn't mean I'm going to flip directions and become an advocate of complete state control of industry.
Your over-the-top rhetoric serves no-one and illustrates no point.