alt Hacker NewsSo has tech replaced oil and natural gas as the new tobacco, or do we have two new tobaccos right now? Oh, what about fast fashion? Recyclable plastics that aren't actually recyclable? Dodgy financial products remixed and hidden in your mutual funds? Unsafe tap water that passes all the city's tests but not at-home tests for the same contaminates? The Texas government being run by Republicans for decades who campaign on fixing the broken schools, roads, and taxes in Texas?
Would it be terrible thing if the answers to all of your rhetorical questions was "yes"?
As we become more democratic we can control these greedy, careless and horrid people.
Ignoring negative externalities is such a twentieth century way to get rich.