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yoyohello13today at 4:22 AM4 repliesview on HN

True, I should have said an industry that will trample on anything that stands in the way of its pursuit of money.


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devonkimtoday at 11:47 AM

This is what amorality means to me in the context of socioeconomics. It operates in an area of reduced dimensionality to economic value because no other value can be agreed upon in trade between cultures. It doesn’t care if a piece of art, nature or human invention is genuinely novel, rare, irreplaceable, invaluable, etc. unless it can be converted into materializable economic value that is itself subjective and present oriented so that we can plan for our future selves about resources as a proxy.

kibatoday at 5:21 AM

The industry optimize toward whatever metric is legible. A company that optimize toward an illegible metric will endure.

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sfn42today at 7:38 AM

Welcome to literally all industry.

bluegattytoday at 4:50 AM

It's not doing those things.