Yes, pricing negative externalities is a good idea. Unfortunately some are more or less expensive to price/enforce
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It’s called “mandatory deposit”
Yes, there are plenty of books, many were printed, many have lasted a very long time (plenty over 100 years!).
That says more about the success and utility of the technology than it does about whether individual books should be shredded.
I suspect Stripe walks a fine line where they want to help you prevent fraud, but they also want to avoid vendors complaining to them that their customers can’t pay.
Context: I worked on a payments team for a short while.
Someone who wants to spend an inheritance is going to do it, whether it’s liquid (cash) or marginally less so (real property)
More people are in more significant debt bondage than in the past, that’s not an improvement.
The proportion of owned outright homes has been declining in the western world for 30 years.
Maybe? Hardware supply isn’t perfectly elastic
In developed countries outside the US annual multi-week vacations are routine for the middle classes
Thankfully sometimes 'they' are the customers paying real money for a product or service that's valuable to them.
But as you say, larger organizations have more room for political distractions on the way to giving that customer what they want.