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[-] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago

True. But if the largest economy in the world wasn't actively trying to sabotage green solutions and promote oil use and environmental destruction as a result of billionaires' influence, it would be a big plus.

[-] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago

As if the employee-owned fossil fuel syndicates and weapons manufacturer syndicates and car manufacturer syndicates and road construction syndicates and plastic processing syndicates wouldn't be trying to sabotage green solutions just as hard. As if the warehouse logistics syndicate couldn't use its monopsony to bully manufacturing syndicates into making the shittiest products for them and their monopoly to get those shitty product to the masses. And as if a liberal democracy like the US wouldn't be just as corruptible by these syndicates resulting in the state actively trying to sabotage green projects as well.

There is no reason for employee-owned syndicates to be more of a force for good outside the workplace than pension funds. Most workers with even the slightest profit motive invest in weapons for genocide, pollution for profit, and housing as a speculative form of income. If a syndicate was bad for the environment, that syndicate would fight to continue existing as long as it was profitable for the employees to do so.

Don't get me wrong, it's nice that the employees get their fair share of the blood money. But capitalism redistributes wealth from the kind to the selfish whether they're individuals, corporations, or syndicates.

[-] derAbsender@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago

Only one way to find Out. But Something tells me a certain group of guilty people is fighting tooth and nail we wont ever truly find out...

[-] abuttandahalf@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

This is true, and the solution is third worldist communism. The overconsumption and control over global production of the first world has to end for sustainability to be possible.

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