How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S.

Re:How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S. by eastbound on Friday November 01, 2024 @06:07PM (#42022039)

It’s incredible how unsafe our products are. They are practically unvetted, and even when they are, Amazon sells counterfeits under the same SKU comingling. And risks nothing because the product was technically sold by “INXBDBA”.

Having been to Armenia, which has practically no laws because it’s not part of the EU, I wonder what would happen “naturally”, if EU laws didn’t exist in the EU. Maybe we’d get exactly the same quality of products.

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Re:How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S. by 0xcde4c3db on Friday November 01, 2024 @07:10PM (#42022458)

> And risks nothing because the product was technically sold by “INXBDBA”.

The kicker is that this is a classic "cobra effect" [1] that has bogged down government offices. Those useless brands exist because Amazon tried to cut down on counterfeits and no-name junk by implementing a policy of requiring the brand to be a registered trademark. Instead of cutting down on junk products, it led to an explosion of junk brands [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/style/amazon-trademark-co...

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