tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9279394.post7420305640445046645..comments2023-10-06T08:53:14.731-04:00Comments on Eternal vigilance: Blackmail Inc.Ricketsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02579799843541826447noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9279394.post-18025691779682380452012-08-29T00:27:48.432-04:002012-08-29T00:27:48.432-04:00I don't know how Blackmail Inc. would supposed...I don't know how Blackmail Inc. would supposedly gain monopoly control over information, unless they could make enforceable contracts. Perhaps by blackmailing everyone with the information? <br /><br />Ricketsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02579799843541826447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9279394.post-28375623605658568462012-08-28T21:49:02.583-04:002012-08-28T21:49:02.583-04:00Your description of the business model of Blackmai...Your description of the business model of Blackmail, Inc. mentions carefully gaining monopoly control over information.<br /><br />I don't believe for a minute that truly free markets implies radical transparency, but of course truly competitive markets (not the same thing IMO) does.<br /><br />As puzzling as it is that blackmail is illegal, is that insider trading is illegal. In the capital markets, in theory, there is the expectation that people are supposed to be competing on a level informational playing field, but in the J.O.B. market, we are expected to cope with the reality that 95+% of openings are unadvertised, and that networking (i.e. nepotism) is expected of today's job-seeker. A double standard, no?<br /><br />If information doesn't want to be free, I intend to <a href="http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Pubwan" rel="nofollow">liberate it against its will!</a>Lorrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13567383019731167967noreply@blogger.com