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> How is "figure out a way to transform your business so you don't wreck the planet" haughty idealism Because it's like asking a tree to figure out how to beco
by erikpukinskis 10y ago
> How is "figure out a way to transform your business so you don't wreck the planet" haughty idealism
Because it's like asking a tree to figure out how to become a meadow of flowers. Sure, the meadow could just as easily exist in the same place, but the mechanisms by which the tree became a tree can't be used to turn it into a field of flowers.
Certain kinds of change can only come by displacing what's there with something new.
> and how does suggesting that as the correct approach result in nothing ever getting done?
Because the people you're assigning to do it have no natural motivation to do it, and are completely psychically cut off from the information signals that could guide someone through the successful foundation of a clean energy company.
You've got the right approach, you're just looking to the wrong people to get it done.
- mikeash 10y agoSome companies manage to disrupt themselves rather than waiting for upstarts to do it for them. It's not impossible. It may well be quite difficult, but I don't see why we can't criticize companies for failing to do difficult things.
- alexvoda 10y agoWe can criticize them for failing to do/failing to attempt to do, but we should not expect them to do it. Companies will naturally be opposed to developing something that threatens their main revenue stream. Expecting them to do it results in nothing getting done.
- mikeash 10y agoI don't get that last sentence. How do my expectations influence what they do?