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by metheus 2708 days ago
I agree, it does sound like a step in the right direction.

Here’s how I look at the issue you have with trust in companies and regulatory bodies: I cannot imagine a world (inhabited by humans) without bureaucratic inefficiency and corruption inherent to the systems that organize large societies. It's like a law of social thermodynamics. We should continually strive to fight against the chaos and bad behavior, but at some level we have to understand that as long as humans are humans, /those/ efforts (e.g. anti-corruption legislation) will be marred by bureaucracy and corruption (e.g. lobbyists influencing anti-corruption legislation), like a recursive glitch in the matrix. If you can recognize the challenges that introduces, but be at peace with it, you can stay focused on what "steps in the right direction" we can make.