You know it’s bad when a TECH person is talking about externalities. The majority of tech people I know simply do not care about negative costs to anything. 

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And they do not care who they hurt, what they damage, or what we lose in the process of those 2 things. 

Perhaps tech bros care about plastic because it’s a consequence they can’t be isolated from. 100% of people, plants and wildlife have to deal with this

You know it’s bad when a TECH person is talking about externalities. The majority of tech people I know simply do not care about negative costs to anything. 

Making Money Is Good
“Progress” Is Good

And they do not care who they hurt, what they damage, or what we lose in the process of those 2 things. 

Perhaps tech bros care about plastic because it’s a consequence they can’t be isolated from. 100% of people, plants and wildlife have to deal with this https://x.com/karpathy/status/1826372336213524715

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it's because most of the externalities are vague and unprovable 

"social media makes people feel worse" or "disinformation is ruining democracy" are a lot less concrete of claims than "everyone has microplastics in their balls, check the X-ray"

tech people want concrete evidence regarding the claims over what is causing what externality