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People can absolutely have complicated feelings about things that help them. My life is sustained by medicine produced by large international pharma companies,
by Mezzie 2mo ago
People can absolutely have complicated feelings about things that help them.
My life is sustained by medicine produced by large international pharma companies, and I also feel really uncomfortable about that.
- vouaobrasil 2mo agoExactly right. We all have to survive on a personal level - that's our instinct. But we can only try and minimize our impact and do the best we can, even though on a global scale supporting the current system is not a good thing in many cases. I don't think badly of anyone who uses AI who makes a living because, survival. But on the other hand, I think the world would be better off without it. One can still wish for a better world while trying to survive in the current one using the tools at one's disposal, even if that situation is suboptimal.
- sunnybeetroot 2mo agoThat’s fair, I think it’s possible to be both grateful for the existence of capitalism funding research into those companies and disgust over how much money they make.