None of those work, because they inevitably become vectors of the problem they're supposed to solve.
This is yet another disproof of the nonsense belief that markets reward efficiency, which is good for consumers.
Markets are fundamentally about gaining advantage over others, and it's far easier and cheaper to gain advantage through manipulation and questionable forms of persuasion than by any other means.
Which is why everyone and everything is now drowning in toxic sludge.
Markets, lacking any sense of the collective good, inevitably produce a tragedy of the commons for the benefit of a small number of the most successful, persuasive, and least ethical predatory manipulators.
This is supposed to be "rational", but that framing is itself a manipulation.
There's nothing rational about drowning in toxic sludge. It's a specific moral policy choice, with predictably negative consequences that have played out over and over again.
This is yet another disproof of the nonsense belief that markets reward efficiency, which is good for consumers.
Markets are fundamentally about gaining advantage over others, and it's far easier and cheaper to gain advantage through manipulation and questionable forms of persuasion than by any other means.
Which is why everyone and everything is now drowning in toxic sludge.
Markets, lacking any sense of the collective good, inevitably produce a tragedy of the commons for the benefit of a small number of the most successful, persuasive, and least ethical predatory manipulators.
This is supposed to be "rational", but that framing is itself a manipulation.
There's nothing rational about drowning in toxic sludge. It's a specific moral policy choice, with predictably negative consequences that have played out over and over again.