2026-07-27 00:57 UTC
Serious Finance People: A green transition would require way too much investment and cause way too much economic dislocation, it's completely unrealistic, we have no choice but to keep drilling for more oil
Also Serious Finance People: We're throwing trillions of dollars at AI nobody wants because we can't tell the difference between a business prospectus and a science fiction novel
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@ChuckMcManis@chaos.social 2026-07-27 04:27
@XauriEL@mastodon.nz Yeah, it doesn't really actually make sense. I used to think that Lewis Carroll was writing silly dialog about words meaning what the speaker wanted them to mean when I read Alice, now I realize he was poking fun at pundits.
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@tuv@indieweb.social 2026-07-28 02:59
@XauriEL@mastodon.nz Capitalism needs a miracle. Therefore anything with a measurable return is not worth investing in. Good math never suggests unlimited exponential growth