The new policing effort - customers
I think a better title would be "Reputation AS Regulation", but I'm not the author. You are probably familiar with John Stossel, but if not, he is a pretty solid libertarian thinker.
Enabled by the Internet and instant feedback, Stossel makes the case for eliminating government regulators and health inspectors in favor of the market-centric approach: customer feedback.
Is it realistic to expect customer feedback to drive policing of food establishments sans official inspectors? Are there dangers with false negative feedback?
Please chime in.
Enabled by the Internet and instant feedback, Stossel makes the case for eliminating government regulators and health inspectors in favor of the market-centric approach: customer feedback.
Is it realistic to expect customer feedback to drive policing of food establishments sans official inspectors? Are there dangers with false negative feedback?
Please chime in.
Mr Stossel's last sentence is great.
The only possible argument I foresee one could make the other direction is a bad rating on food (health and safety-wise) only comes after someone has already gotten sick. But I've already gotten sick from national chain restaurants like KFC, so you can't argue regulation is a silver bullet prevention, either.