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Not even this, it's increase profits next quarter.
Corporate behavior would be ridiculously different if they weren't so short term.
Corporate behaviour would be different if they were treated like the citizen they claim to be.
The prison would be filled to the brim, and we could release people that were imprisoned for smoking pot or something to make place for people destroying the planet.
Where companies will sacrifice the next 2 years for a good "next quarter".
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It's easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.
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Don't forget:
The problem is not that they choose to do this, it's that they're allowed to do it.
It's not that CEOs just happened to be evil. It's a material conditions problem. Anyone who becomes a CEO has tremendous pressure to become evil. You could even argue that the steps you would have to take to become a CEO are morally problematic. So the pressure to become evil starts early. As soon as you enter the job market.
Same for high politics btw.
Yes, but the difference is with politics things are more transparent and we have a choice. We can vote. With CEOs, we don't get a choice and no one really knows what goes on up there.
Which is why we normally argue for democracy. If everybody acts collectively in their own interest, we all win.
If everybody acts collectively in their own interest, we all win.
I mean this is only really true so long as everyone is allowed to vote, which is inevitably never the case. We always have certain subsects of the population which aren't really given access to democracy. It's very easy to, even in a "total democracy", still have a ton of xenophobia and imperialism, because obviously, people who aren't citizens can't vote. That's a very large top-down example, right, but this creation of subsects happens at every level. Famous more american examples are gerrymandering and the electoral college.
Yeah, it's a 'trade'.
The hand fits the glove
More than allowed! The system (society at large, capitalism, etc...) forces them to think this way!
Ed Zitron's podcast, Better Offline, has been discussing the rot economy for multiple episodes. The idea of "number go up" being the only metric that matters makes a lot of sense for how we got here.
"If the customers are buying and the money multiplying and the PR people lying and the lawyers are denying, who cares if some things are dying!"
That song went too hard for Illumination Entertainment to greenlight it.
great title btw
Or, y'know... Vote Democrat and have a chance to save your children from climate Armageddon.
I feel like "Vote Democrat" is 0.5 step forwards while "Vote GOP" is 50 steps backwards. Really wish we had ranked choice voting and a handful of viable other viable parties like other democracies around the world!
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