• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    23 days ago

    To continue with the argument of “the market will self-regulate and people wouldn’t buy that brand anymore so they would never do it again”

    Okay but how many people died, how many people are suffering long-term effects, and what’s stopping them from adding a different deadly thing to our food?

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      23 days ago

      wouldn’t buy that brand anymore so they would never do it again

      Assuming there is perfect information in the market. In reality there is heavy information asymmetry.

      It also assumes free competition while we have every market dominated by a few players buying up everyone else, often with cartel like behavior.

      • Robust Mirror@aussie.zone
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        23 days ago

        It also assumes it is immediately deadly poison, and doesn’t do something like cause early dementia 25 years later.