The parable of the broken window was introduced by French economist Frédéric Bastiat in his 1850 essay “That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen” (“Ce qu’on voit et ce qu’on ne voit pas”) to illustrate why destruction, and the money spent to recover from destruction, is not actually a net benefit to society.
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RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Late-stage capitalist trolley problem:
There’s a trolley, but no one is one the tracks. Do you:
a) Allow the trolley to pass by without incident, and thus rob the medical industry of its paycheck for stiching you back up
or
b) Jump in front of the trolley and get injured, but thus also delay its arrival to its destination and thus rob the trolley company shareholders of profits due to missing customers
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 1 day ago
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This problem only works if the user has insurance, and obviously he shouldn’t have that because it could be profit, the obvious answer is to jump on the track to get that profit back to the corporations.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 days ago
Late-stage capitalist problem:
There’s tracks, but trolly service was defunded as it wasn’t profitable. Now everyone spends thousands per year to maintain a car.
romanticremedy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Ah yes car centric hell
Sunflier@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The real late-stage-capitalism problem: suicide is the ecconomic way to go out than have your estate end in bankruptcy because healthcare is just so damn expensive and insurance is insensitived to deny coverage.