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The Financialization of Everything w/ Edward Ongweso Jr.

Tech Won't Save Us

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Is the Drive for Profit and to Externalize Every Single Cost Permeating Society?

i think the drive for profitand to externalize all the cost has infected every single institution and relation among people. And as a result, you effectively indoctrinate and inculcate people with the idea that all they should be is greedy and self interested in maximising their own a profit from any situation in transaction. I mean, we are increasingly creating systems where individuals within them t even really occur to them to think or to be uncomfortable. It's pretty depressing picture of what ends up lining up with libertarians or libertarian inspired people who don't trust each other. We have managed to infect everyone with that mind-set towards how humans should act with each other because these people have managed to hurt

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