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Idea: refugee credits like carbon credits. For every person your military or arms sales kill on foreign soil, you are debited 4 refugee credits representing number of displaced people you must take in. Extend logic to property destruction, environment degradation from mining 🤔
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what about export of things like marlboroughs, shit candy, fruit loops, coca cola and mcdonald's?? what do we owe the world for selling them things that will ruin their health? what do we owe ourselves? this question is top of mind on halloween
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does it matter if the product is addictive?? i feel like late stage capitalism is all about addiction....and there's some sort of externality associated with addiction. at the least the corps who sell addictive products must bear some burden of the social costs of addiction???
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I think "addiction" is a very dangerous, loaded term that is either meaningless, or so expansive, it includes everything. I don't think it is particularly an artifact of capitalism, let alone late-stage. Religious ritual is addictive. Communist solidarity is addictive...
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