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by 6510 2126 days ago
I suggest we make it illegal. To remedy the problem a government website is created. Everyone who has anything for sale MUST list it there including prices and give everyone in the country, regardless who they are, the opportunity to buy it. If your potential customer doesn't know he needs your product it may be carefully described in a machine readable way, critically examined for a fee and listed as a suggestion for the prospects. If they desire it customers may create a detailed profile full of personal information (that will be guarded carefully) The suggestions are ordered by scale of promotion. If you successfully game the system and properly describe the exploit a large bounty will be be paid.
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To pick the best product or service one would have to first know which exist. Further data can be gathered after this. Individually we might be happy to pick some random crap and pay to much for it. Collectively it has huge implications. You get an expensive world build out of useless crap. A market in private and personal data has even more terrifying implications. Genocide might not even be the worse. It can and probably will (for some it already is) become a slow torture device that excludes no one.

I politely thank you for silently disapproving of my opinion since I couldn't have made the point better myself.