Re:Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on th...
by tetrometal on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @10:24PM
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IMO the problem is that the government meddles with the market to begin with. I know I'm in the minority, but I believe a clean separation of government and market would remove the incentive for regulatory capture without damaging free speech rights.
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Re:Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on th...
by ardy42 on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:15PM
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> I know I'm in the minority, but I believe a clean separation of government and market would remove the incentive for regulatory capture without damaging free speech rights.
That's myopic though. It's true your "clean separation" would "solve" the problem of regulatory capture, but it would simultaneously re-introduce the problems that regulation has successfully solved [1]. Society is a dynamic system of tradeoffs; solutions to societal problems that are tidy, good, and stable are ever-tempting chimeras.
[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cuyahoga-river-caught...