Is capitalism greed the only thing saving us from mutually assured destruction?

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[–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Have you looked at what the US corpos are doing? Shooting themselves in the foot for short term profits is extremely believable.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Yeah, that crossed my mind, but I do think there’s a difference. US corporations shoot themselves in the foot to pursue short term profits because the people in charge believe they can get out of the business with that profit before those decisions come back to bite them.

    In the show though, they’re doing the opposite. They’re giving up their short term profitable corporations for some nebulous future “market monopolization” in the long term, despite there no longer being a market for them to monopolize. I think that makes them even more stupid.

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