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hakfooyesterday at 5:19 PM0 repliesview on HN

This was always one of the downfalls of market economics.

We already have conscious feelings about these things, but it's virtually impossible to enforce it into the market at scale in a meaningful way.

We could take a broadly agreed on sentiment like "I really want the caregivers taking care of my grandparents in the rest home to be qualified and adequately paid so they'll do their best", and mysteriously the market will breed a solution that's "the agency is charging $50 per hour and delivering a $12 per hour warm body that will do the bare legal minimum to avoid neglect charges."

We try regulation, but again, the market evolves the countermeasures of least-cost checkbox compliance. All because we aren't willing to take direct command over economic actors.