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Megacorporations making profit is not some evil that needs to be stopped. The economy is not zero sum.
by charcircuit 7mo ago
Megacorporations making profit is not some evil that needs to be stopped. The economy is not zero sum.
- zephen 7mo ago> The economy is not zero sum. This is true. But it's not always positive sum, either. > Megacorporations making profit is not some evil that needs to be stopped. Externalities are a thing. It's not about the profit per se, but about how (a) the making of that profit might negatively impact others, and (b) the deployment of that profit in pursuit of rent-seeking and other antisocial behavior in order to insure its continued existence might also negatively impact others.
- drob518 7mo agoExternalities are a thing, but this isn’t exactly dumping toxic waste into a river.
- trinsic2 7mo agoI disagree with that. from what I read data centers are going to have some real world negative effects on human populations
- zephen 7mo agoNo, it's more just drying the river up entirely. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/25/texas-data-center-water-use/ https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/25/texas-data-center-wa...