Re: Yes…..
You are correct about the externality and “don’t care” aspects.
But indeed, you *aren’t* my customer, I’m 100% certain of that. I have about 20 corporate customers for my specialist engineering parts, who I now know well, and I’m hoping to get *another* 20 customers over the next few years. My average order size is $50k.
But you are *also* not the customer of www.threadsstyling.com
Fashion forward, and just about the hottest thing right now. Luxury and expanding explosively, annual sales over £40m. Typical items £1k-200k. They *have* a website, but mostly because a bunch of old farts told them they needed it to be investable. They do business almost entirely on Insta and WhatsApp.
Go to the “Privacy Policy” tab at the bottom, and click it. Let me know how that goes for you (it goes to an error page). People are spending 17grand on a Fernando Jorge on that website in seconds….except they mostly aren’t, they are DM’ing on Insta.
You are applying your assumptions about websites, and what they do, and lobbying some deluded men in suits to get a bunch of rules extended to the rest of an economy which you have no idea even exists, let alone how it works. My only fear is that you may influence that bunch of lobbyable distant central planners, who *also* have no idea how most of the economy actually works, and just stamp all over it with your big clumpy feet destroying what you don’t understand.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
