How can age verification be misused?

I never really hear people say that the free market will solve things. Market failures are a thing and a dominant part of welfare economics.

Ah so it’s more of a question about the origin of the word, and it seems you’re right about the lion’s teeth. People who say dandy lion probably misinterpreted the sound. But hey that’s how language evolves.

He wrote it wrong. Its dandelion, and its pronounced in English just like you do, but dependent on the country, we have different words for it. In danish its “mælkebøtte”. Which means “milk bucket”. I think because of the white liquid they have inside. Its good for mosquito bites.

Nobody is saying vaccines have zero side effects. But everything has side effects, and the side effects for vaccines have been reported just like all other medications. https://www.healthline.com/health/vaccinations/side-effects-of-covid-19-vaccine#age-differences Of the more serious side effects these are mainly reported in 4-5 per one MILLION people.

In comparison, this study https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10123459/ finds that 232,000 deaths could have been prevented AMONG the unvaccinated. This is includes people who could not take the vaccine for specific health reasons who may not have died if people who could took it.

And they were voluntary to take despite it having big consequences for everyone else that some chose not to take them.

The real reason is that monopolies or other forms of market power prevent competitive pricing, wages and rents.

Couldn’t they make it locationally dependent?

Ah, I see. Not too worried about this then

Is this only for Californians? Only Americans? Or everywhere?

Ah I see, good point

Ah I see. Idk for me it was kinda opposite. My headphones wires got fucked up every three years or so. I still haven’t replaced my earbuds. Or do you mean how batteri waste is worse for the environment?

How is that?

I mean Adam Smith even said you have to prevent monopolies and tax land.

To be fair, this is a result of the lack of competition or the formation of trusts, hence why we had anti trust laws

I like this, but how do you avoid people making bad decisions because they think it will benefit society but then it makes things worse? Like the kind of questions experts are better suited to know. For example rent control is repeatedly proven to be a bad policy, but people tend to think its good cause logic shows that “prices high, lets make them less directly”. Experts would maybe look at the underlying causes of prevention of construction, height restrictions, land speculation, and expansions of credit supply as a cause of housing unaffordability.

What to do then?

Solution anonymous leaders? Or leaders as groups/institutions rather than individuals.