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AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 9 months agoNew players largely can’t “enter the market” and literally every company that grows to the point of being and agrees to be publically traded must do every sociopathic thing they can to increase profit or they will be sued.
I don’t think a new group of people playing at this sick game will be any better than the last. Growth isn’t the answer. Growth is the problem. Our species needs to shrink or it will continue to suffer until it perishes by its own hands, and that is what we will do. I don’t think there is a solution, but I do know if there is, it won’t be found in economic growth/metastasis.
That’s just saying the cure to a poison is to drink… More of the same poison.
LufyCZ@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ah of course, the “everything I hear about is bad” bias.
There’s an insane amount of small businesses out there, have a look at your friendly government’s statostics.
You know how these small businesses start? Often by telling friends and family about them (marketing), posting ads on the local notice board (marketing), having a damn logo on the door (marketing).
People have to know you exist, else they can only come across your shop by mistake, and no way you’re surviving a week like that.
All of these places would fail without any sort of marketing. Concentrating the power into the hands of established players.
Whatever you stand for, it doesn’t work.
squid_slime@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Your looking all this from a capitalist prospective, you’ll never understand till you can see past that.
LufyCZ@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The world is capitalist and it’s not changing anytime soon.
Meaning, whatever your ideology is, it’s a waste of your and everyone elses time.
Adapt it to reality and push for smaller changes, a big one ain’t happening.
squid_slime@lemmy.world 9 months ago
We buy shoes that last a few months. Cost penny’s to make through sweat shops, for extortionate prices. Years old tech/iot that does little to actually improve our lives and end up as e-waste. Food that is killing us. Look at the next big film/game and look at the amount of money goes into marketing, and sadly most of those films/games turn out to be shit. Cars that lie about they’re emissions.
Yet all these things are bought up due to marketing.
So while I know this won’t die anytime soon, I am glad to be apart of the small percentage that see it as is.
AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Completely agreed, that’s why there’s no point playing. Just watch the slow motion, but accelerating, murder suicide of humanity and a lot of other innocent surface life, because we ain’t changing.
nytimes.com/…/global-warming-accelerating.html
noaa.gov/…/warmest-arctic-summer-on-record-is-evi…