• Thorry84@feddit.nl
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    5 days ago

    In the same vain, we have the technology and ability to give everyone on earth access to clean drinking water. We just can’t do it and still run a profit, so it doesn’t get done. Capitalism is the enemy of humanity.

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      Why don’t they just drink champagne if their water is dirty?

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        4 days ago

        That was literally how a good chunk of recorded human history did it, except with weak beer or diluted wine.

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      Ideally, projects that are beneficial to everyone but unprofitable are picked up by the government. Like building highways and maintaining public lands… What we’re seeing in the US is what happens when you “run the government like a business”. It doesn’t mean efficiency, it means revenue generation for the board members. Sadly the fucking chuds in the US are too dumb to figure that out.