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I upvoted both of you but you seem to contradict each other.. now I start to question my clarity. I think capitalism became very good at optimizing for profit
by leaveyou 10y ago
I upvoted both of you but you seem to contradict each other.. now I start to question my clarity.
I think capitalism became very good at optimizing for profit and it pushes aside faster than ever anything that stays in it's path (and now that's more and more people).
>We severely undervalue social value for material value
Unfortunately the market has spoken: material value.
- toomuchtodo 10y ago> Unfortunately the market has spoken: material value. Society is what we make of it. We still have a choice. Also, kudos to everyone up the chain in this subthread; this is the discourse I expect when coming to HN.
- deepnet 10y ago> the market has spoken: The extent that the market is a free market is much debated.
- leaveyou 10y agoI should have used quotes (") around market but I already used my quota of quotes today..
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- ArkyBeagle 10y ago"Underlying social value" is oh so much harder to measure. whose social; whose value?