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> This is one of the central questions of our age. I think the question is what to do about it, not whether it's happening. We have reams of evidence that it's
by annabellish 8y ago
> This is one of the central questions of our age.
I think the question is what to do about it, not whether it's happening. We have reams of evidence that it's happening, and "doing good" for PR reasons is just more of the same - it's more important to look good than to be good, and looking good without being good is more profitable and thus more desirable.
Unfortunately, because so much of our media runs in the same system, it can be difficult to have a clear conversation on the topic.
- daharmattan 8y agoYou're right, the central question we are facing is how to structure our society, what values, incentives we should use as its foundation. The current (capitalist) system uses self interest and profit as an incentive, and we see where that got us. We can mitigate some issues with tweaks like regulation, but it's also valuable to ask more fundamental questions. Is there a different incentive other than profit we can use? What are the effects on society of the incentives we use? What values do we want to promote? How can we do that? The difficulty of having this complex and nuanced discussion shouldn't discourage us from having it. We must find our way together.