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Of course someone is going to profit. That's the only reason anything gets built anywhere ever.
by fallingknife 3y ago
Of course someone is going to profit. That's the only reason anything gets built anywhere ever.
- btbuildem 3y agoWhy were the Pyramids built? The Cathedral of Notre Dame? The American public library system? Or their interstate system, for that matter? Who made bank off contributing to Wikipedia? Was Linus Torvalds driven by a profit motive when creating linux? Just because the West is ethically bankrupt and collapsing upon itself doesn't mean that humanity has always been that morally poor and unimaginative, or that it needs to continue that way.
- mdhb 3y agoThere’s a very particular and typically libertarian leaning personality type on the internet who for whatever reason seem to only be able to look at the entirety of the human experience through the lens of economics and they just come to the most ridiculous conclusions.