Capitalism bad on lemmy of course…

But Capitalism doesn’t inherently optimize out ethics. It just tries to optimize out anything that gets in the way of profit.

When being ethical is profitable, companies will be ethical. Many companies are maximizing profits by making ethical decisions solely because doing so keeps their customers purchasing their products instead of their competitors’ products.

I’d argue that this is a newer feature of Capitalism as well. So it’s accidentally optimizing IN more ethics when compared to 100 years ago.

I think it’s more accurate to say that Capitalism is indifferent to ethics rather than to say Capitalism optimizes it out.

Seriously! He just sat there smugly silent anytime anyone asked how old he is.

I recently realized my dog is a year older than I thought because of a Facebook memory. I’ve been angry that he lied about his age all this time.