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"whenever we're presented with a choice to do the right thing or the wrong thing, we do the wrong thing. We need to start making the right choices.

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[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The future looks like Idiocracy plus Soylent Green. Best timeline. Who knew that ignoring the worst model outcomes due to normalcy bias might be a mistake.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

And this is all down to how capitalism - and profits at any cost - have hijacked democracy and corrupted politics.

Had democracy been able to establish a separation between politics and capitalism in the same general manner as the separation of state and religion, we might have had a chance.