alt Hacker News"The market" is not doing anything. My point is that there are rational agents making decisions here, and it's not even some intractable situation where you have 1,000 players and someone will necessarily be a scumbag. This is a small industry with a very high bar to entry. They don't get to pin it on market forces.
And I have actually heard "if you hate it, you should have asked the regulators to stop me from doing it" from a techie, and man... no. You have agency. You own this. If you need a regulator to stop you, you're not a good person, sorry. The market didn't make you do this. You just felt that it absolved you.
Sure, but are you looking to assign moral culpability or fix the problem? Because the market and regulatory environment is what ensures that the people you are judging to be bad will be the ones that are succeeding. It doesn't matter how bad you (or anyone else) think it is, if even a small fraction of people are willing to do it and they are rewarded for doing so, then they will be the people who are in a position to do it.