I've sold to quick payers and to slow payers. Once word gets out that a company is a slow payer, small providers will try to tighten up payment terms if they can, follow up aggressively where they can't, or stop doing business with them altogether.
Big businesses have formal and informal credit scores.
Some problems just don't have an elegant / worthwhile solution. These problems are best handled in a decentralized way by each actor mitigating as best they can, not by centralizing power even further with a massive bureaucratic overreach into private business dealings and creating a bigger problem.
You can't just create a big bad Department To Solve Problem X every time something happens that offends your sensibilities.
Of course there are some regulations that are cheap and obviously worth it; I don't see how that's relevant.
Big businesses have formal and informal credit scores.
Some problems just don't have an elegant / worthwhile solution. These problems are best handled in a decentralized way by each actor mitigating as best they can, not by centralizing power even further with a massive bureaucratic overreach into private business dealings and creating a bigger problem.
You can't just create a big bad Department To Solve Problem X every time something happens that offends your sensibilities.
Of course there are some regulations that are cheap and obviously worth it; I don't see how that's relevant.