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surgical_fire • today at 12:28 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> i personally eat a mostly plant based diet and only eat sustainably wild caught fish a few times a week.

That's commendable, but also does not fix the structural incentives for raising cattle to sell meat.

It improves your individual health, which is good. Just don't fool yourself into thinking you're fixing thr former.

> the only solution is to make hella money (billions+) so we can control incentives.

How naive.

When you get there you will be beholden to the same incentives of any billionaire. You, too, will be raping the world at that point.

The system is not bad because billionaires are inherently bad people. A well-intentioned billionaire will be incentivized to be as destructive as their peers by the structure in place.


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moomoo11 • today at 1:03 PM

i’m just saying moneyed interests drive incentives.

the vast vast majority of people who can affect change come from money and influence.

the broke ones are the outliers.

voting and stuff is cool but end of the day it is an exclusive club.