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> Capturing CO2 and pumping it into the ground is not a commercial enterprise. It's something done to get some sort of regulatory credit.

I would have said that it's something done to improve the health of the planet, but sure.

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You don't make a billion dollars thinking like that. Dude's playing a different game.

Business doesn't have goals beyond money. Any good it does is completely incidental.

That's a wild oversimplification

Sometimes it's good to look beyond myriad of narratives to see what actually makes a thing tick.

Would you please like to tell everyone how that's oversimplified?

> Would you please like to tell everyone how that's oversimplified?

People aren’t one dimensional. Simplifying businesses into perfectly-rational automatons is high-school economics.

Businesses aren't people and people's motivations aren't businesses motivations. Business are automatons, just running on carbon instead of silicon and if they are not perferct they are just bad.

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