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Legislation is the most direct way to solve multi-agent coordination problems, which is what this is. The majority of consumers want cheaper easier products, but in aggregate that leads to negative outcomes for society where we have traded off important values that can't compete on price.

The problem is getting voters and legislators to buy into the idea that those values are important and not worth trading off.



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