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by hctaw 1872 days ago
Environmental pollution also "works better" for companies and yet we regulate it. I don't think this is a false dichotomy, the role of government in business regulation is to modify business practices that are contrary to the best outcomes for society. Not what is more efficient for businesses.
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It is a false dichtotomy.

Inefficient decision making creates environmental pollution.

Regulating to make companies less good at decision making under the belief that this will increase opportunity is literally making society stupider. It is the path to idiocracy.

I’m not against government intervention.

Let’s invest in alternatives, and let’s invest in making people’s lives less precarious.