>The trick, of course, is that neither of these techniques compound for the individual nor a startup. They are pure charity for the planet. "Doesn't concentrat

>The trick, of course, is that neither of these techniques compound for the individual nor a startup. They are pure charity for the planet. "Doesn't concentrate wealth exponentially; BZZT rejected!" At some point, we apparently forgot that wealth/power inequality itself massively contributes to environmental problems. * If you have no political power, you can't defend yourself and your land from pollution. * If a large portion of the society has no political power, a large portion of the society cannot defend themselves and their land from pollution. * In a society with extreme wealth, the price mechanism can't "kick in" to protect increasingly-scarce renewable resources (ie saving a species from extinction). Donella Meadows gives a much better explanation than I can, using fisheries as an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMmChiLZZHg&t=18m48s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMmChiLZZHg&t=18m48s