Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
Trying something new: casting long thoughts into the void. Tell me I'm wrong The primary problem the world faces is that of unpriced externalities. Firms are excellent at finding opportunities to provide goods to customers, but in their rush to remain competitive we frequently find them heaping costs they incur onto the shoulders of people and planet, rather than paying for it themselves. Fundamentally, this is a market inefficiency like any other, and it's a problem that all prior organisms have solved, humanity as an organism is now on the precipice of being able to solve it ourselves. The heart of the problem is this: in order to be able to address the problem of externalities all actors must come to a shared understanding of the costs. In other words, they must come to tell a shared (and true) story about how the world works and the consequences of an action in it.
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Leo
@leohenkels
Okay I’ll play devils advocate Is this a market problem or a human problem? A fundamental belief I have is that humans are lazy and technology has accelerated this. IMO if humans valued the costs incurred on the planet and other humans, firms would seek to mitigate these costs or they would go out of business. I think a lot of people are too lazy to care about doing good. In my opinion, markets are the best system at optimizing our world, but perhaps humans in general just need to place more value on slowing down optimization to improve markets effects on the world. Or better put - de-accelerating. In a dopamine riddled world, where technology is created to optimize and make our lives easier - perhaps we need to create tech designed to incentivize us do more good - or at least give us the perception that we are doing more good.
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Leo
@leohenkels
Hmm idk if this makes sense - it’s frustrating to think about it and difficult to be coherent on an issue that spirals. Practically, companies like B Corp and Gitcoin are making great strides to improve the public good funding using markets. But still, I’m not convinced by anything related to accelerating tech when maybe there needs to be a complete shift in thinking - to finding or building companies that place little to no value on tech that makes humans more lazy.
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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
I'm dubious that B Corps get us there. When running a company you quickly learn that either ppl get paid or they get out. The bottom line is persuasive, we should work with it rather than against it.
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