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Which generalises even more broadly to "capital has no ethics", if there's big bucks to be made there's very little of moral considerations. We as humans faile

• Terr_ 3y ago
  > We as humans failed to instill morality unto the Minotaur of capitalism True, but that problem pre-dates capitalism by at least several thousand years--humanity has never managed to reliably instill lasting morality into any institution, not even those ostensibly centered on it. In that view, it's not that companies are uniquely bad, but that the environment and ecosystem[0] doesn't constrain their tendencies. [0]: Institusystem? Estabisystem? Whatever, obviously I don't mean biology.
  • piva00 3y ago
    > True, but that problem pre-dates capitalism by at least several thousand years--humanity has never managed to reliably instill lasting morality into any institution, not even those ostensibly centered on it. Completely in agreement, it's just a general disappointment I have given that we are leaps and bounds more knowledgeable than at any point previously in history, even with all that knowledge about our past, about how systems work, incentives, etc. we haven't been able to tame the beast of greed and let it roam free to destroy as it pleases. It's just my wishful thinking that we should be better by this point but we aren't, that's not reality.