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One thing they about Jeff Bezos giving $10 billion to "fight climate change" they don't discuss is that he alone will decide who gets funding. For example, if they want to study if it's good for the climate to ship every retail item individually to houses, they won't get funded.
If they want to study whether or not we need to move past capitalism to solve the climate crisis, because an economic model based on competition that requires endless growth for investors can never reduce consumption...well, they will double not get funded.
If, for example, we had taken that money as taxes and spent it on the same purpose, we could democratically decide how to allocate it, rather than having a billionaire with extremely vested interests decide what science is or isn't valuable.
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It is investing in GREEN capitalism
Capitalism doesn't make human wellbeing a priority.
Additionally it means he partially owns what gets funded. If someone invents a very efficient carbon vacuum for example, he could dictate it's go to market strategy and ensure that technology only pushes capital into his ecosystem
Ohh.. I get it now.
Also allows him to designate significant funds to monopolizing whatever industries + tech eventually emerge in the “save our planet now that it’s profitable and everyone’s dying” area of production
Sometimes I think I just open twitter as a form of masochism.
I mostly agree but the problem with this assertion is that anywhere where production and resources exist some level of these incentives will also exist. Doesn’t matter who’s hands you put them in. This is possibly a problem that cannot be solved until the human race is extinct.
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