Thread · 2 tweets · 14 May 2022

It's not what caused the business need, but it's what was offered to solve its problems - and it doesn't. Institutions design markets. The incentives are, as often, to race to the bottom. Effective law is supposed to stop that, otherwise it's just wishful thinking.

If we did food safety the way we do privacy regulation everyone except a fringe food-educated elite would be eating cyanide-laced asbestos wrapped in lead paint because they agreed to do so when they walked into the supermarket. That's not a good system and we can do better.