"HeyBub" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:

Forever. The market is not always right, but it is right far more
often than any other technique.


Bars here are doing MORE business since it became illegal to smoke
in bars. I seriously doubt "the market" would've figured that out
without a kick in the pants. And, Detroit *never* would've dealt
with car emissions issues without the government stepping in.
Automakers had no financial incentive to deal with it.

You should be outraged! MORE drinking! Doesn't that offend your
sensibilities of what's good for people?

There's another concept called the "Tragedy of the Commons" that's an
exception to unfettered personal actions. You're attempting to
expand that concept to all human actions.


Do you think car makers would've dealt with emissions without having
the screws put to them?

We'll never know, will we? But that's a "commons" arena.


That's pretty funny.