• grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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    4 months ago

    Yes, so many people fail to see the existential stakes here. They think that even a bandaid like ubi is inevitable, because they don’t acknowledge the possibility that we could just die.

    Like that if it’s cheaper to let us gather in unregulated tent cities and croak from the new plagues that blossom there, then that’s what’ll happen.

    Obviously it’s not good for anyone in the long term, but corpos can’t think long term.

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      4 months ago

      but corpos can’t think long term

      they can. it’s just that, structurally, incentives are far more strongly geared to not do that in almost all cases.

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        4 months ago

        I hovered on that word while writing it; almost put “can’t afford to think long term,” but that is even more ambiguous…

        Anyway, thank you, I agree with your distinction.

        My feeling is those incentives are so strong that anyone behaving too long term will usually get their lunch eaten by someone who is just out to make a quick profit.