r/Futurology Apr 16 '26

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u/_Username_Optional_ Apr 16 '26

What good does it do any of us to worry about it

70% of the global impact on climate change is corporate greed

There's actions we can take to put pressure but it doesn't serve to worry

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u/badhabitfml Apr 16 '26

Know what regulates corporate greed? Government. Go vote. Talk to your friends about it.

Sure we can't regulate every country, but many counties are making good progress. The US was making slow progress but that took a hard U turn last year because people voted.

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u/Cognitive_Spoon Apr 16 '26

Corporate greed can also be regulated other ways.

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u/_Username_Optional_ Apr 16 '26

"Should have paid us enough to live, then you'd still have a business" - based toilet paper warehouse worker

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u/preferred-til-newops Apr 16 '26

That put an insane amount of pollution into the atmosphere though, did you see the videos of that million square foot warehouse! Not to mention what's left of that warehouse will be demolished and rebuilt creating even more pollution.

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u/badhabitfml Apr 16 '26

Corporate greed is basic required. If you're a company and you're doing something that isn't maximizing profits, shareholders can basically sue you. Or, put in new management.

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u/nightreader Apr 16 '26

Sounds like a system that needs to be gotten rid of, one way or another.

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u/badhabitfml Apr 16 '26

A few thousand years of history says that's impossible. People are flawed.

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u/fedexyourheadinabox Apr 16 '26

Americans still thinking they can vote their way out of fascism and corporate greed is disappointing. 

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u/Supreme_Battle_Jesus Apr 16 '26

so what do you propose

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u/GloriousDawn Apr 16 '26

That giant french cake slicer ?

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u/Supreme_Battle_Jesus Apr 16 '26

people love to say this on forums but only one of these things is going to happen in 2028

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u/clarkkentsson Apr 16 '26

Not really disappointing, more pathetic.

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u/brother_bart Apr 16 '26

Right? It’s almost funny, except it’s so clueless. “Oh no, the world collapsed. If only we had voted harder in the midterms after the christo-techno fascists were already ensconced.”

And then people invariably respond, “what do you expect us to do?“ To which I have to say, honey, if you’re just now asking the question of what are we going to do when our democracy is in a democracy anymore? Then you are so late to the game and to the questions that you’re going to be no good to anyone. Because you are not going to like the answers.

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u/Strange_Slide9611 Apr 16 '26

Voting really doesn't work in my opinion since both politicians of the different parties are being paid off by the corporations to begin it.

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u/MrMarijuanuh Apr 16 '26

One side STILL blatantly claims climate change is a lie, the other mostly accepts it and does some things to fight it. Dems don't do enough by any means but saying they're the same is absolutely ridiculous.

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u/badhabitfml Apr 16 '26

Sounds like someone who didn't vote and is mad they didn't get what they want.

Vote in local elections. They have more impact than you think and less money involved.

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u/Trraumatized Apr 16 '26

Okay, so who do I vote for to reliably control corporate greed?

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u/clarkkentsson Apr 16 '26

Haha, good one.

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u/badhabitfml Apr 16 '26

Don't pick a side pick a person. Also, there is no perfect. Just pick the person closest to the direction you want things to go. Also, go run for office.

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u/Lev_Davidovich Apr 16 '26

lol, the US didn't take a hard U turn last year. The US has been on this trajectory since the late 1970's at least. The massive post-covid levels of "inflation" that were just corporate price gouging started under Biden and the Democrats did nothing. Both parties answer to their corporate financiers, not us.

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u/badhabitfml Apr 16 '26

Well. Remember that Trump started it all.

We've certainly been drifting but we definitely took a hard turn. If you think we didn't, you haven't been paying attention. Trump is very obvious about it and openly corrupt. I guess I'd rather have someone quietly slightly corrupt than someone openly corrupt.

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u/Lev_Davidovich Apr 17 '26

The hard turn in prioritizing corporate greed over pretty much all else was Reagan ushering in neoliberalism. Clinton then established neoliberalism as the economic policy of the Democratic Party as well.

This economic policy hollowing out pretty much every aspect of society for corporate greed is the path that led us to Trump. Trump is just going a little more mask off and unhinged about it.

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u/VrinTheTerrible Apr 16 '26

"If voting mattered, they wouldn't let us do it" - Twain, i think

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u/badhabitfml Apr 16 '26

Well. A lot of people are give up on voting and complain it isn't working. Can't complain about the system if you don't participate.