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0 pointslmm9d ago0 comments

If it's silly and it works, it's not silly.

Criticising our entire economic system tends to have very little effect. Criticising specific poor business practices and/or technologies that enable them has a much better chance of improving people's lives.

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josephg9d ago

> Criticising our entire economic system tends to have very little effect.

I think its actively counterproductive. Criticising the entire economic system doesn't do anything. Complaining in broad strokes about stuff you can't change reduces your sense of agency over the world.

Also, if people believe that businesses must be sociopathic, they will make sociopathic choices in business. The belief reinforces the problem.

fc417fc8029d ago

It's not that they must be, rather that they are incentivized to be. If you dangle money in front of them what were you expecting?

josephg8d ago

> If you dangle money in front of them what were you expecting?

I expect people to have ethics, and not act like greedy sociopaths. Especially people running large businesses.

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