Re:Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bou...
by omniglottal on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @06:59PM
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A "few failures as part of otherwise useful regulation" sounds an awful lot like some innocent victims exists, treated as guilty.
Treating the (presumed) innocent as though guilty, by regulation even, doesn't sound all that good. In fact, seems there in fact are profound and relevant principles to not accept that.
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Re:Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bou...
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @09:03PM
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> some innocent victims exists, treated as guilty
The context in this discussion is comparing the hypothetical of a homeless person dying due to a systemic failure to the hypothetical of a business going bankrupt (without being acquired) due to a systemic failure.
This concept of presumed innocence ought to apply to this hypothetical homeless person: why not give them shelter (analogous to allowing M&A) by default, until someone decides it’s a problem? If a society is willing to accept this personal death, they should be willing to accept a business failure.