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Re:Is anyone else trying to opt out of Equifax WorkNumber? by dylan604 on Saturday October 15, 2022 @12:53AM (#33211870)
The "free market" created this
Re:Is anyone else trying to opt out of Equifax WorkNumber? by easrng on Saturday October 15, 2022 @01:02AM (#33211916)
The "free market" is great at creating problems.
Re:Is anyone else trying to opt out of Equifax WorkNumber? by teitoklien on Saturday October 15, 2022 @04:02AM (#33212801)
The free market is great at creating solutions. Something planned economy based governments are incompetent at.

Evil humans sometimes make bad solutions in a free market. Let’s stop blaming systems and start blaming humans for their corrupt & greedy behaviour.

Fighting about systems only helps corrupt politicians topple each other from place of power. Hence the funding that goes into obsession over capitalism, socialism, communism debates.

Re:Is anyone else trying to opt out of Equifax WorkNumber? by auggierose on Saturday October 15, 2022 @04:25AM (#33212929)
Systems not taking into account that humans can behave in a corrupt and greedy way are just bad systems. We can totally blame those systems.
Re:Is anyone else trying to opt out of Equifax WorkNumber? by jwarden on Saturday October 15, 2022 @11:12AM (#33215529)
That’s like saying “people” are great at creating problems. It is a true but unbalanced and unhelpful statement, since people are also great at solving problems.
Re:Is anyone else trying to opt out of Equifax WorkNumber? by kelnos on Saturday October 15, 2022 @02:06AM (#33212171)
Which has no bearing on whether or not the "free market" (not that such a thing actually exists) can stop it.
Re:Is anyone else trying to opt out of Equifax WorkNumber? by CogitoCogito on Saturday October 15, 2022 @10:09AM (#33214992)
> Which has no bearing on whether or not the "free market" (not that such a thing actually exists) can stop it.

How does it have _no_ bearing on whether the market can stop it? If the status quo is the result of market forces, one should at least consider the possibility that market forces will not result in anything different.

I think maybe you meant to say that market forces _might_ still stop this even if they have not done it so far. That is a bit more defensible.