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Avicebrontoday at 4:22 PM0 repliesview on HN

"....It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it." - Adam Smith, final paragraph of Book I, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Warning about companies being able to command regulation on themselves. We're far past anything Adam Smith would have thought was a good idea for how we organize capital and commerce.