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@Dojan

Parts of it are even pretty recent. The Friedman Doctrine, for example. “a company’s social responsibility is to increase its profits and maximize shareholder value”. I call it the worst idea in capitalism. It’s what’s forcing companies to pollute and lie about it, to bribe politicians and to create misinformation campaigns. As long as it’s legal, it is their responsibility to do all of that.

The idea stems from 1970 and became popular during the 1980s. It is the most harmful idea in capitalism (which is not short of harmful ideas).

@jumping_redditor

Not true. It’s possible for industry to coexist with a healthier environment, but that would mean taking responsibility for their externalities, and that’s apparently already too much to ask.

“A cure for cancer” is such a magical nonsense phrase. We can already cure a lot of cancers. There are tons of people living healthy lives after surviving cancer. And we know more and more about how to prevent it (like not smoking). But they want magic.

Even bigger nonsense is the claim that AI will solve global warming. We already know the solution to global warming. We’re just not doing anything with it, because of destructive business interests.