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> Something's rotten It's called late capitalism. We cannot structure a society around not only profit, but infinite growth, and expect that not to give us any
by andrepd 2y ago
> Something's rotten
It's called late capitalism. We cannot structure a society around not only profit, but infinite growth, and expect that not to give us any problems. It does.
You cannot just sell as many copies of Photoshop as last year: you must sell more, each quarter, and more expensive. You cannot sell as many phones as last year: you must make batteries non-removable so phones break quicker, you must spend 3x your R&D budget on ads to manipulate people on buying an identical phone to last year. Etc etc