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> 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 sto
by 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...