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0 pointspolarix12y ago0 comments

Yes. They've helped us find that: no, once we have a reputation economy, we don't need the government to tell us who we can safely get in a car with.

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gamblor95612y ago· 1 in thread

And as Yelp, eBay, and other reputation sites have shown us, it turns out that reputation economies are useless once everyone rates every transaction/buyer/seller 5 stars.

patcon12y ago

You've never filtered for the bad reviews? Also, is it possible that you're only seeing the uninteresting storm of 5-stars because the "interesting" merchants don't survive? (I honestly have no idea if this is the case.)

patcon12y ago

Exactly. Now that we can make informed decision, we can excise the social/financial cost of regulation and its administration, in exchange for accepting the risk (of making our own informed decision).

I'm a progressive liberal fwiw, not a libertarian.

Touche12y ago

But "reputation economy" means someone gets to be the guinea pig.

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