(Holly, a student from L.A.) Welcome the blog I brought with me to college. holly_hunt@brown.edu

 

Also, to people who are trying to “change the system”

Don’t whine about it on the internet with a poorly and unsoundly argued—but educated-sounding—rant, plug your own sort of ludicrous solution, and then hope people don’t see the lack of common sense behind your message.

If you want to change the way an industry works, the best way to do that is to establish your own industry, not make some petition with no target—who are you trying to convince anyway?

Don’t try to regulate through Congress because that’s not even giving the people who are doing it wrong the opportunity to fail when someone does it right. Regulation restricts people from doing the wrong thing, but it doesn’t teach them to do the right thing.

Common sense, people.