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orthoclad

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1. Externalized costs!

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Jul 6, 2026, 09:26 PM

Monday

Oh Woe! Where would capitalism's profits be if they had to actually pay the true cost of their takings! Why won't the rest of the world absorb those costs and leave the rich alone?

Who will think of the investors' children?

in this world, /s is needed

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The notion that we can take and take and take and take, waste and waste, without consequences, is driving the biosphere [View all] applegrove Monday OP

Externalized costs! orthoclad Monday #1

Seriously, ALL of our modern problems orthoclad Monday #2