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> We’d maybe all be able to see the checkout person‘s whole face, and hug our family and friends right now.

Or maybe not, just like how the FDA fumbled the test development while forbidding private alternatives to avoid losing face.

I can imagine such a word, were graft and power decides what project gets the money, instead of the population aggregated preferences through the free market.

I seriously believe we would all be worse off. It is not about justifying our own preferences, but thinking about all of mankind. If the vast majority of the world population believes "destroying the environment through resource extraction" is needed to elevate their standard our living to ours, we have to gracefully accept they are our equals, and to collectively deal the problem later on.

I think you should consider that what we want and what is going to make us happier is generally the same. There are rare exceptions, and we take offense that capitalism rewards them too, but they remain exceptions.




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