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354 points qingcharles | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0s | source
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mjevans ◴[] No.43748591[source]
Not watching a video, but how is it legal for any company to "sell" something like this? (The video might explain that, but that's my focus of what I care about out of the situation.)
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sneak ◴[] No.43748603[source]
You’re free to not buy it, that’s why. This video is the market working as intended.
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yoyohello13 ◴[] No.43748661[source]
The problem with letting “the market” decide things like this is it requires first that someone gets hurt. Then they need to wage and information campaign against said company. Or we can just have a law that says this is bad and be done with it.
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sneak ◴[] No.43748723[source]
Unchecked lawmaking hurts a lot more people than bad consumer products.

We have a good system, and this video shows it functions well.

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1. ryandrake ◴[] No.43748763[source]
We have a terrible system, built around power disparity, dishonesty, unequal and difficult access to remedies for dishonesty, and this obsession with the idea that only individuals should act individually, and not collectively as a governing body, to prevent and punish harms.