• blindsight@beehaw.org
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    10 months ago

    Sure, but nothing I wrote above depends on trust. This seems like it could be an Econ 101 example of the profit motive increasing the total utility in the system. Hence why I said this has the potential to be win-win-win.

    I don’t trust companies to pursue anything other than the profit motive but sometimes that can be a good thing.

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      10 months ago

      Sure, but nothing I wrote above depends on trust.

      the premise of a “win-win-win” scenario is necessarily predicated on the belief that a corporation would ever let such an arrangement occur versus just shamelessly exploiting its customers and telling them to love it or leave it, which is a form of trust. in my mind that is trust that is severely unearned by literally any current corporation—and i would firmly assert that even outside of a vacuum the vast majority of corporations will gladly tell (and right now are in the process of telling) their customers the latter