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seniorivn | 2 years ago

incentives cannot be fixed with just prohibitive laws, war on drags should've taught you something

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jpk|2 years ago

Laws, and more specifically their penalties, are precisely for fixing incentives. It's just a matter of setting a penalty that outweighs the natural incentive you want to override. e.g., Is it more expensive to respect privacy, or pay the fine for not doing so? PII could, and should, be made radioactive by privacy regulations and their associated penalties.

worldsayshi|2 years ago

It's not a complete fix but I'm sure a law with teeth can make a big difference. There's a big difference in being data mined by a big corp with the law on its side and a criminal organisation or their customers that has to cover their tracks to not get multi million dollar fines.

garbagewoman|2 years ago

War on drags? I thought that was just in Florida

ineedaj0b|2 years ago

please consider commenting more thoughtfully. I understand this is a joke but we don't want this site to devolve into Reddit.