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Why do you think this requires a government mandate? What evidence do you have of counter-lobbying as opposed to simple consumer and retailer preference?


> Why do you think this requires a government mandate?

It's a classic tragedy of the commons situation (inverted, like the economics textbook example of a lighthouse), to which government intervention is the classic solution. Fraud prevention benefits everyone, but any individual actor is better off skipping the fraud checks.




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