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Isn't it neat.. I mean stupid. I saw a quote today from Vonnegut: "We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t co
by mbxy 7mo ago
Isn't it neat.. I mean stupid.
I saw a quote today from Vonnegut: "We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective."
- juleiie 7mo agoSaving yourself is always cost effective… In fact no matter the costs, the cost of not saving yourself is infinite.
- reverius42 7mo agoRationally, yes. Humans are too often irrational.
- juleiie 7mo agoNo, I believe that money successful humans as single units are extremely rational and cold calculating. The problem is that this rationality is often centered on a single beneficiary (You) because why would you care about any other beneficiary? However times and times again it turns out that no company is as evil as government. Hence I am an anarcho capitalist. On the whole even with every company only thinking about themselves, it is a distributed system self sustaining and self correcting. No single unit has unlimited power. Historically it’s always the governments that are vastly more evil and chaotic than any private enterprise ever conceived. And so we can see it now as another example from USA government. No company could ever get so corrupt and evil as current American elected officials.
- JKCalhoun 7mo agoYou seem to tacitly acknowledge corporate America can also be evil, just not as evil as government can be? Why put corporate America on a pedestal at all then? Why content yourself with what you consider the lesser of two evils? Demand accountability from your elected officials. It can be done by not electing them. You have no such agency over corporate America (short of boycotting, I suppose). To my eye the U.S's highest elected official is in fact also a company.
- dtj1123 7mo agoExplaining this to fossil fuel advocates is surprisingly challenging.
- andriamanitra 7mo agoThat model breaks when you don't have perfect knowledge of whether or not you will perish. Therefore in every practical situation we are forced to assign a finite cost to risk. And generally people tend to prefer tiny increases to societal risk over compromising their personal comfort.