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Exactly: You can dump chemicals into the air because you want to make a profit, but if you do it for social/environmental reasons suddenly you've "gone rogue"!
by LatteLazy 4y ago
Exactly: You can dump chemicals into the air because you want to make a profit, but if you do it for social/environmental reasons suddenly you've "gone rogue"!?
- upsidesinclude 4y agoWhat is it about virtue signaling that prevents people from seeing their own stupidity? >“To go ahead with implementation at this stage is a very bad idea,” Pasztor
- LatteLazy 4y agoI think we need to move beyond the traditional model of how people think. Classical Liberalism and Economics both hold people out as rational, reasonably self interested, self controlled etc. But the truth is that there are a whole bunch of processes in human brains that do not follow this model. Not just raw emotions. But things like seeking to belong or exclude others. Virtue Signalling is another example of this. Behavioural economics is starting to try and quantify some of this. Hopefully in a generation or two we will have learned (both individually and socially) to deal with these things a bit better...
- TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago> What is it about virtue signaling that prevents people from seeing their own stupidity? Dunning Kruger, with a pinch of religious zealotry, to taste.
- aww_dang 4y agoTurtles all the way down. The social/environmental cover is a cash grab through bureaucratic means. He's gone rogue in that he isn't planning the climate via a supranational bureau of experts. >The company says it has raised $750,000 in funding from Boost VC and Pioneer Fund, among others, and that its early investors have also been purchasing cooling credits.