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holoduke ◴[] No.40173070[source]
Sometimes I think that this attitude will cause the western world to become a second tier world. How can you build a sustainable world where this level of greed is accepted and even lobbied into political levels.
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1. Aerbil313 ◴[] No.40173673[source]
The dead sibling comment really exposes how a good fraction of people in the western world think.

But truly greed was the real primary motivator of technological progress for the past centuries. Not the desire to benefit humanity.

They say greed kills the greedy person.