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throwaway27448today at 8:26 AM1 replyview on HN

But—we clearly can't accomplish basic things. That's my point


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salawattoday at 10:26 AM

And the reason why is those things must be profitable, and once you accept everything must be profitable, there is no ceiling to exploitation. Whereas with big things like Apollo, we didn't do it because it would make money. We did it because we decided it was the right thing to do.

Stop being a capitalist hellhole, and maybe try being a country that happens to operate under bounded capitalism, and just maybe, maybe, you can see some of that progress.

But what am I saying, cmon, that'll never happen.

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