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moffkalastlast Tuesday at 10:07 PM1 replyview on HN

Nothing says capitalism quite like a corporation polluting the entire planet with something they knew caused disease, actively gaslighted everyone involved, transferred liability to a sacrificial entity so they got zero punishment for it, and the rest of us are left to buy water filters for the rest of history if we want clean water.

3M and Dupont deserve the death penalty for it and should've been dissolved completely for crimes against humanity.


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jajkoyesterday at 8:50 AM

If only it would be so easy to blame it all on capitalism.

I've lived in communism and it was exactly the same. Pollution beyond any reasonable levels, testing chemistry on products and people, rules and regulations coming from government and faceless bureaucrats... The result was the same, but instead of corporate greed the reason was lack of any interest and foresight.

Well regulated capitalism is probably best equipped to deal with such. Whether ours is well equipped to deal with this is another question.

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