Market-driven tech solutions to global problems are automatically technologies for peace. If you can't get the rest of the world to cooperate with you, either the thing you want doesn't happen, or you attempt to coerce cooperation via escalation that walks you toward war...
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This is part of the reason I loathe self-flagellation re: climate science, particularly when it leads people to reject technological solutions that don't require them to atone for their sins. Playing status games based on masochism on a global scale is not a smart move
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If your plan requires people to agree with you, it’s not really a plan.
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Being cheaper and/or more effective may not be enough, unless we happen to live in a perfectly functioning market and a perfectly level public sphere.
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Which we don't. It continues to amaze me that laypeople believe in perfect free markets when literally all of economics is about studying the ways in which real markets aren't free.
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