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capitalism is literally about to end human life on the planet and people are like This could really create a lot of jobs
@live Like when the local Native Americans sold Manhattan to the Dutch for, what was it, $1062?
A thousand fucking dollars, man! Sounds like a lot! Well, that averaged to about a stick of gum per Native American, and then they didn't have Manhattan any more.
Granted, the Dutch would have exterminated the fuck out of them and taken it anyway because that's how colonists roll, but the mindset—fixating on the benefit, ignoring the looming downsides—has not changed significantly.
