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And businesses as a whole produce positive externalities, as intended, which is why we continue to allow them to exist.
by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
And businesses as a whole produce positive externalities, as intended, which is why we continue to allow them to exist.
- crawfordcomeaux 1y agoOnly when accounting is done without calculating ecological cost, including human quality of life.
- Nasrudith 1y agoHuman quality of life tends to be pretty shit without them though, and that is ignoring all of the competitively a necessity "choices" where not doing so is literally suicidal. Not adopting early agriculture and settling down leads to nomadic hunter gatherers being outnumbered and genocided by sedentary farmers sorts of necessity. Refusing to mine and pollute means bad things happen to you when you encounter metallic armed and armored foes.
- asdf6969 1y ago> we continue to allow them to exist Who is “we”? I can’t do anything about it. No more than peasants “allow” the king to exist..
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoSure you can. You can vote to get rid of corporations, and you'll get outvoted. Ergo: we. You don't understand how kings work if you think it's equivalent to your situation in a western democracy.
- asdf6969 1y ago[flagged]
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoFormatting issue? "Voting obviously doesn't work." - Troll
- Jensson 1y agoVoting obviously works, you can vote away capitalism, some countries did that. The only reason it "doesn't work" is that the countries that did vote away capitalism didn't fare very well, so other countries people are very reluctant to try that again. But they absolutely could if they wanted.
- asdf6969 1y agoSome countries “voted” to elect Putin and napoleon too…