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 Originally Posted by Monty3038
Obviously arsenic is a ridiculous idea, as is the fact that you would just lose business. But both extremes averaged out kind of make the middle ground.
Actually, arsenic is a very normal example. Egregious production practices causing enormous havoc and not costing the businesses much is very common.
Look at milk pasteurization for example. Raw milk was killing a lot of people, but everybody still wanted it, and it was only until the taxpayer funded government hired some scientists and regulators to fix the problem. Not only did the consumers not punish the businesses for poor dairy production practices, but even today, many consumers are trying to return to that era of lethal milk
Consumers are not some kind of logical equalizer. We already know for a fact that businesses get away with so many forms of extreme levels of destruction when unhindered by governing bodies represented by and for the public
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