• postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Capitalism seems to drive innovation too, which with climate change humanity needs pretty desperately.

    oil companies were suppressing information and reseach on climate change because they were maximizing shareholder value.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, capitalism creates incentives - that’s my point. Thanks for proving my point.

      Just because some follow a bad incentive doesn’t mean it isn’t worth the other good incentives produced.

      Further, disinformation is its own class of problems we need to solve. You could have a socialist government and still lots of disinformation. So that’s not really unique to capitalism at all.

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        1 year ago

        And the bad incentives are the crux of the problem.

        Waxing philosophical about letting the extreme negative happen just because of what might come from that great pile of captured capital will lead to species extinction, not evolution.