{"id":11405,"date":"2022-11-21T08:26:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T13:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/?p=11405"},"modified":"2022-12-19T18:02:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T23:02:33","slug":"a-free-market-principle-dont-ban-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/2022\/11\/a-free-market-principle-dont-ban-products\/","title":{"rendered":"A Free Market Principle-Don’t Ban Products"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seth Godin is brilliant, but sometimes he’s wrong.<\/p>\n

If you don’t already read Seth Godin’s blog<\/a>, your should. But in a recent post<\/a>, he made this statement:<\/p>\n

The solution, if we\u2019re serious, is to ban gas leaf blowers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Banning products violates one of the most basic free market principles. I’m against it. And every entrepreneur should be too. If you don’t like a product, make a replacement product. If you have a long list of reasons why your replacement is better than the original, promote those reasons.<\/p>\n

But let the market decide which product is more desirable, yours or the original. Using the coercive powers of government to ban a product you don’t like is anti-democratic, anti-free market, and anti-entrepreneur.<\/p>\n

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Seth Godin is brilliant, but sometimes he’s wrong. If you don’t already read Seth Godin’s blog, your should. But in a recent post, he made this statement: The solution, if we\u2019re serious, is to ban gas leaf blowers. Banning products violates one of the most basic free market principles. I’m against it. And every entrepreneur… <\/p>\n

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