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

• garbagewoman 3y ago
  War on drags? I thought that was just in Florida
  • ineedaj0b 3y ago
    please consider commenting more thoughtfully. I understand this is a joke but we don't want this site to devolve into Reddit.
    • Pengtuzi 3y ago
      [flagged]
      • ineedaj0b 3y ago
        I don't have a flag button or option my account is new
        • zabzonk 3y ago
          click on time since posted to get a flag button - exactly why hn works this way is a bit of a mystery, to me at least
          • ineedaj0b 3y ago
            Thank you, I had no idea!
    • riquisimo 3y ago
      It is sad that we live in a world where this could be interpreted both ways.
• SV_BubbleTime 3y ago
  Drugs… Oooohh. I get it now.
• jpk 3y 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 3y 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.