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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
joepie91@slightly.tech ("joepie91 needs more railing (🔜 eth0)") wrote:
one of my less obvious frustrations with capitalism as an ideology is that it forces people into *creating* negative externalities, not just suffering them
example: if the work you want to do looks like "collecting and compiling data", then there's really only two options for making a living off that under capitalism: either you collect and compile *private* data, which infringes on people's agency, or you collect public/informational data and you sell (semi-)exclusive access to it, creating information inequality tied to wealth in the process
there is no reliable way to make a living off doing this work for the public benefit; if this kind of work is your passion, your *only* real options for actually doing it are ways that harm society, despite there being plenty of legitimate purposes for data compilation on paper