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  • It’s not just “they make products and services that people buy”, it’s that “they maximize their personal profit at the expense of people and the environment”.

    It’s easy but reductive to blame consumers for consuming, when it’s worth noting that biodegradable packaging costs more than plastics that will never break down, so corporations will choose cheap plastic over environmentally friendly packaging 99.9% of the time.

    The incentives are wrong. Instead of maximizing profit we need to ensure that profit is not maximized at the expense of sustainability, at the expense of pollution, and at the expense of the entire future of our planet.






  • kat_angstrom@lemmy.worldtoFunny@sh.itjust.worksLimits
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    8 months ago

    Rude. Possibly trolling, even. This also makes me sad.

    Let’s try an actual dialogue tho, rather than just me slinging declarations at you:

    Let’s say someone is mean to you in real life; for the sake of brevity let’s just say that someone insults your mother without any provocation.

    Is it your fault if you feel an emotional reaction, or are you just having a natural reaction to someone making your world a worse place by spreading toxicity?

    And if it’s online instead of in real life, would you consider the outcomes to be different? Let’s discuss. :)