• Telorand
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    2 months ago

    Given that the right wing is the subset of people who unironically talk about “rolling coal” and are almost certainly the biggest consumers of gigantic pickup trucks, is anyone really surprised by this?

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      I think we should be unsurprised not because of who they are but because of the fact these corporations have the fiduciary duty to do this.

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        2 months ago

        I’m sure the argument could be made that they don’t have to get embroiled in politics at this level, but it’s definitely something for which they can claim plausible deniability.

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          You could but I think focusing on individuals or groups’ morals is a not a productive approach for solving this. If the system optimizes for this, it will select the people who have the right morals. It will also make people with these morals if there aren’t any. We see both of these phenomena. If on the other hand we point at the system and say this is what creates this problem, and if we change it, it’ll stop selecting and creating psychopaths. I think.