alt Hacker NewsI worked at a biotechnology company, we had thousands of clients but five of them were 80% of our revenue. In your world, should that business not exist as well?
I don't understand the princple that revenue should be uniformly distributed as a condition for existing. How would you enforce this?
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Are those clients addicts who are ruining their lives with your product? If so, yeah you shouldn't exist, or at least you need to downsize and try to get that percentage way down.
It depends on what you're selling.
> How would you enforce this?
Case by case. We already do this, this isn't a hypothetical. You can't advertise tobacco anymore and guess what, lots less people addicted and we're saving literally millions of lives in the long run.
I presume one would just continuously uniformly distribute everything till they arrived at communism lmao
I’m not claiming revenue must be even.
And I’m assuming that the five customers actually benefitted from your company’s work? If so, then they’re not really comparable to gambling addicts, alcoholics, and gun fanatics, right?
We already (poorly) enforce (weak) laws requiring casinos not to prey on addicts.
We already (poorly) enforce (weak) laws requiring bars not to over-serve and alcoholics to get treatment sometimes.
We do almost nothing about gun addicts.
But commenting that something shouldn’t be the way it is isn’t a claim to know how to fix it.