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China orders annual security reviews for all critical information infrastructure operators

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Re: Mandatory Security Teams

I disagree ever so slightly. Capitalism optimizes itself to maximize profit by delivering what customers value - i.e. what customers will actually pay for. If customers valued clean air, clean water, good working conditions, environmental policies, etc., then they would prefer companies that prioritized those things even if they had to pay more for their products. Those companies would then make more money for their shareholders, and their competitors would have to change or go out of business. That's capitalism. The reason we need regulated capitalism is largely due to the hypocrisy of us, the customer. While most of us would say, for example, that the environment is important, if it means paying more for stuff or waiting longer for it to arrive from environmentally responsible companies then principles go out the window.

Today's customers want the cheapest thing, delivered the quickest with no delivery charges and today's capitalism has optimized itself to do just that.

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