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Environment & Energy

Midnight Writer

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3. We give people enormous financial incentives to act in a way that damages our people and our society

Reply to GiqueCee (Reply #2)

Sat May 9, 2026, 10:20 AM

5 hrs ago

and even the planet we live on.

There is no financial incentive to be a good person, to be responsible for your actions, to make sacrifices to help others.

In fact, standing up to power will likely get you smashed.

With such a perverse incentive system, we will go nowhere but down.

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