Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was a highly influential German philosopher most known for an idea called the categorical imperative first published in The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785).
Do you think there is a pendulum effect and we just haven't hit the full range of painfully self-serving and capitalistic motivation? Perhaps there will be an eventual slowdown. The sheeple will realize the toxic loop they're in and the pendulum will decelerate. I hope.
That's a good question. It seems there is a consumer pendulum (i.e. behavior has swung towards internet addiction and will swing back) and a corporate pendulum (i.e. behavior has swung towards self-interest and will swing back). I'm more optimistic about the former because consumer behavior can change (even if human nature does not) -- whereas the systems that underlie corporate behavior do not show signs of changing dramatically.
Do you think there is a pendulum effect and we just haven't hit the full range of painfully self-serving and capitalistic motivation? Perhaps there will be an eventual slowdown. The sheeple will realize the toxic loop they're in and the pendulum will decelerate. I hope.
That's a good question. It seems there is a consumer pendulum (i.e. behavior has swung towards internet addiction and will swing back) and a corporate pendulum (i.e. behavior has swung towards self-interest and will swing back). I'm more optimistic about the former because consumer behavior can change (even if human nature does not) -- whereas the systems that underlie corporate behavior do not show signs of changing dramatically.