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This is a failure of politics, not of companies.
by koonsolo 5y ago
This is a failure of politics, not of companies.
- pydry 5y agoExcept politics failed mostly because of the sway those companies had over the government.
- api 5y agoFossil fuels are an absolute cornerstone of the world geopolitical order. The US dollar is at least partly backed by oil in that the oil trade is used to ensure its dominance. You are not wrong but Amazon is not the influencer you should be thinking about. The link between oil and the political order is deeper than that.
- pydry 5y agoI obviously wasnt thinking of amazon. i was thinking of multibillion dollar companies just like them.
- batavian 5y agoThe former is a superset of the latter. Companies are political entities. At the most obvious level they are legal entities, and law is politics. But the mistake here (and some other comments) of drawing "lawmakers", "politics", etc as being conceptually distinct from private corporations is particularly absurd from a historical view. The Protestant Reformation and the Enlightenment forged political battles with substantial effort, debate, human cost that over centuries invented the concept you take granted as "companies", but which no other human civilization previous would have been familiar with. That there are "companies" at all is political, and so the OP is already pointing to a failure of politics.
- koonsolo 5y agoOk, let me rephrase then: it's a failure of governments.
- esarbe 5y agoPutting it like that makes it easy to distance oneself from responsibility. Government is just a function of agreed upon values, rules and principles. It's really a failure of our society. We're all failing.
- koonsolo 5y agoNo it is not distancing from responsibility. Governments are democratically elected by everyone. So it is clear everyone is to blame. When you put the blame on big companies, like the person I replied to, that is distancing! Because we cannot influence those decisions.