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Yeah I don't have a problem with giving credit to engineers if it's a good thing like this. It's when it directly gives evil people like that more wealth and power.
Jeff Bezos is a very evil man and I don't want to touch or support anything that benefits him with a million foot pole.
Imagine if it were Musk or Trump or worse. I have a hard time accepting that, ethically.
I love trucks, and the electrification of everything, sustainable infrastructure and energy. But it has to serve the wellness and the future of the people, not a fucking evil billionaire who is going to turn around and choke us all to death as slaves while the takes over the world.
And as much as I really love stuff like this, engineering and sociologically, and would have idolized this as a teenager and bought it blindly could I have afforded it then, I'm an adult now and have a pretty strong sense of social responsibility to my fellow citizens and the future wellness of both people individually and society. And I just... It's really hard to justify buying or advertising or supporting or even wanting stuff like this if the net outcome is just gonna be the same old, same old.
Like, I don't want a Tesla anymore. Not only because their quality has dropped SIGNIFICANTLY, but also because the company refused to drop musk after all of his literally political interference and throwing up multiple sig heils or heil hitlers or whatever the fucking Nazi salute.
So when I ask "is this Jeff Bezos's truck?" And the answer is "he's an investor", I really don't think anybody should be promoting it or talking about it irresponsibly without considering the ethical concerns and track records of these far alt right billionaire backed corporations.
And unfortunately, I still see way too much of it.
I get that people are sick of horrible shit and life is short and these are nice things... But repeated exceptionalism and social irresponsibility are EXACTLY how we got here in the first place. I'm disgusted, disappointed, frustrated, angry, and sad.
I need good news. Not head-in-sand and keep-shitting-in-the-house-because-it-feels-good.
I do understand what you are saying. I do.
But its impossible to not benefit some greedy dickhead CEO of a corporation in one way or another. Anything you buy will do that. Some companies are better than others but there's no avoiding having the money go to bad actors in some way shape or form in the end. Its all venture capital companies and billionaire ceos all the way down.
Its been designed to be this way.
I hate to break it to you, but probably over half the websites you go to are powered by AWS, Amazon Web Services.
I know. I wish it weren't that way, and I think it important we all strive for better alternatives.
I'm sure Bezos is broadly invested across the entire market. If you're buying anything from any publicly traded company, you're giving Bezos some money.
We need to throw the baby out with the bath water. Burn out the cancer. If we can't plug the leak, it's time for a new boat.
Then in the meantime, after you've tore everything down and while you're building your utopia from scratch, everyone starves to death.
That's kind of a shitty argument though. Because I don't think we should just give up. We have to at least try.
But also, when society is this fucked, this deeply, by this type of cancer... It's systemic and we're heading in a very dark direction. People are going to starve to death no matter what, and compared to full on ww3, I think at some point we need to head it off, identify and cut out the cancer, and try our best to not let corruption back into the power vacuum.
None of this is easy. Not easy to do, not easy to talk about, not easy to even think about. It's uncomfortable. And many won't agree. But until society isn't ratfucking select parts of itself and enriching evil people, I think there's some structural improvement to be had. The real question, then, is how far down do we need to go? How deep do these shitty roots with a stranglehold on all of us go?
At that point you might as well consider every possible publicly traded company as benefitting Jeff Bezos.
Can you recommend an electric truck for me that doesn't have the stink of men who have raped the planet, children, or exploited the poor?
I think TELO seems better idk