• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe
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    9 hours ago

    You missed my point. The solution isn’t to let them continue to be bad, until someone goes into competition and beat them with a more moral business model. The moral model can’t succeed when they are competing with someone who is exploiting and manipulating the system in bad faith.

    The solution is to create a business environment where the moral business succeeds, while the immoral business struggles, and eventually decides to follow the rules in order to succeed, or close.

    • rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.works
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      8 hours ago

      The solution is to create a business environment where the moral business succeeds

      Yes, but it will be up to the consumer to create such an environment, either with their wallets or democratically.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe
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        8 hours ago

        The government will have to take a major role in that. Reconfiguring the entire direction of the business environment cannot be left to the easily manipulated vagaries of the American consumer. It has to be much more deliberate than that, with targeted laws and vigorous enforcement.

        In the future, we must make it uncomfortable to be super wealthy, like needing permission to spend their money on a second yacht. If the commission determines that’s an unreasonable request, the money will be confiscated, and steered to Social programs. Obviously that’s too much money for them to handle responsibly.