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> I would love to see the tech industry return to concentrating on truly delivering good to the end-user. I

How do you force an industry to ignore profit incentive? Seems a little pollyannish to hope for.

You force them to pay for the negative externalities they cause so that their profit incentives are not as misaligned with what is good for the rest of the world. This includes making companies pay for pollution but also for much more abstract damages like the reduced consumer choice from monopolies.

> You force them to pay for the negative externalities they cause

Surely Capital would just purchase more convenient terms from politicians.

in which case you just have a failed state. Just like Drug lords run Mexico, VC and investors run the US, and citizens suffer in both cases.

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