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nathias on Jan 9, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas

enviromental effects are just one aspect of externalities, if you had to pay all of them, I wonder how many businesses would be left

latexr on Jan 9, 2023 | [–]

Your comment made me think of a New Yorker cartoon¹:

> “Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”

¹ https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995

diordiderot on Jan 9, 2023 | [–]

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