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minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoThat’s because Starbucks is a corporation; they only care about making their number go up. People don’t really behave like that.
minus-squareFiniteBanjo@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·1 day agoA corporation is just a group of people.
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoYes, but people acting for their own livelihoods don’t follow the same patterns as people acting to maximize wealth. This is a systemic problem, not (or at least not necessarily) a human nature problem.
minus-squareFiniteBanjo@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 day agoIf humans naturally stopped at enough then billionaires already wouldn’t exist.
That’s because Starbucks is a corporation; they only care about making their number go up. People don’t really behave like that.
A corporation is just a group of people.
Yes, but people acting for their own livelihoods don’t follow the same patterns as people acting to maximize wealth. This is a systemic problem, not (or at least not necessarily) a human nature problem.
If humans naturally stopped at enough then billionaires already wouldn’t exist.