HomeGrown Humans - Daniel Schmachtenberger - Existential Risk
Collective Insights
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Maximizing Profit Profit Is an Extractive Measure Revenue Minus Expense
We went from about a half a billion people to eight billion largely as the result of being able to extract nutrients from soil faster than they could replenish themselves. All that nitrogen also equals nitrogen affluent as it flushes out which equals dead zones in the ocean and so what we're looking at is we haven't our economics has oriented to have everybody oriented to benefit themselves where they will extract unrenewably and they will pollute unrenewable maximize extraction and externality.
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