“If you’re so smart why are the only ways you have to get rich value extractive?”

A thought I have often about our so called smart people

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Extraction of natural and human capital is the story of civilization unfortunately

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and people call me doomer!  

Extraction may be inevitable but is it desirable or sustainable? 

I agree the optimal amount  of all bad things is nonzero but Many things were until they weren’t. Leaded gasoline was profitable and widespread and yet we somehow got it together to stop doing that

"extraction may be inevitable but is it desirable" - and moreover, does being competitively extractive mean you are smart? imho the opposite.

the most extractive people i know (and the richest) are all unquestionably the dumbest.

when they try to sound smart, it always comes out as "well maybe poor people don't deserve to eat!" and everyone else at the Homeless Charity Gala nods and cheers, because culturally it's widely accepted that anything a rich person says is smart, true, and good.

Full-stack digital product consultant @ BoundCorp.net - eng @daylight

Real. They may not be the dumbest but I rarely find them interesting.