Either Tim Cook does not use a Mac computer or he does not notice/care. I am not saying he should helicopter-parent all the design process but the "finished" product?
It depends on how you measure success… Has that change improved the economy and well-being of the Germans?
I do not know, I’m only pointing out that change to renewables does not necessarily mean “success”.
First: This whole reneable thing was done to reduce negative externalities from pollution and CO2 emissions that were simply not paid for previously.
Arguing that "the economy would be better of without pollution/emission limits" is a bit like arguing that dumping trash in the next river is cheaper than proper disposal: Sure, your industrialists are gonna save a few bucks right now, but someone will have to pick up the bill regardless-- with interest.
Sure, but people's rent and bills are due now and if they can't pay up, you can't gaslighting them with "your sacrifice is necessary for the future of the environment" which is a luxury belief.
Why haven't shareholders of energy companies also made sacrifices to save the environment? How come only the consumers have to?
Do you understand why people are pissed off with the switch?
Source? Because EU pollutes less now than before, but my groceries are even more expensive so your point is moot. So why should I accept to be spit-roasted like this with no return on my sacrifices?
Maybe greedy corporate profiteering is the real culprit here squeezing people and not people using the AC or driving to work?
You're dodging my question. I asked why hasn't our economic sacrifice to save the environment resulted in a reduction in grocery prices, if environmental damage is what's causing them to go up? We reduced the economic damage but prices are still going up. So what gives? Is it environmentalism or corporate greed?
Because there are lags in the system? Because we are not doing enough? Do you always expect immediate feedback on everything you do? If that's the case I guess you never invest in anything because that's by definition a bet that it will make things better (or less worse) in the future.
So your proposal is to further delay making anyone pay for changes, because previous generations profited? So at the end of the chain (which will likely not be very long anymore) some generation will be completely screwed.
The environment consists of natural resources. Those resources have value and are "owned" by the people. You can save money by not changing the oil in your car, right up until the engine seizes up. Preserving the value of valuable assets through proper care and maintenance isn't exactly a high concept abstract concept.
> Sure, but people's rent and bills are due now and if they can't pay up, you can't gaslighting them with "your sacrifice is necessary for the future of the environment" which is a luxury belief.
My point of view is that "we have to curb emissions now before consequences grow too dire" is not a "luxury belief": the actual luxury is/was consuming fuel and fossil products without ever paying for the externalities. It was a luxury we could not actually afford at any point, basically just got it on credit in the past, and all that credit is coming due within the century.
> Why haven't shareholders of energy companies also made sacrifices to save the environment? How come only the consumers have to?
Because overall most of the benefit did go to consumers. People basically got a gallon of gas for 30 cents in 1960 when it probably needed to be a dollar or more, but companies like Shell only ever saw a small fraction of that retail price, and there is absolutely no way you could claw back that difference (or anything close, really) from them.
> Do you understand why people are pissed off with the switch?
I do understand the feeling of getting things denied that you took for granted, but I have little sympathy for selfishness.
>the actual luxury is/was consuming fuel and fossil products without ever paying for the externalities.
Then why do current generations have to pay for the profits that the previous generations have banked?
>but companies like Shell only ever saw a small fraction of that retail price, and there is absolutely no way you could claw back that difference
YES, nothing we can do about the corporate overlords who screwed us, let's instead claw it back from the current generation of people instead of from Shell shareholders, that's will go down well politically for sure and not cause extremist rise to power. How is this not a luxury belief?
>I do understand the feeling of getting things denied that you took for granted, but I have little sympathy for selfishness.
It's not selfishness to afford necessities for a decent life especially when more and more of your paycheck goes towards taxes and necessities.
>Then why do current generations have to pay for the profits that the previous generations have banked?
Life isn't fair and time travel doesn't exist. We are stuck with the world we have now and have to deal with the realities, including suffering the consequences for things not your fault. It isn't fair that a son gets cancer because his mother smoked around him all his life, but he is still the one that has to go through chemo.
This argument can be used to justify whatever actions you want. You know that, right?
For example, I'm gonna take your house and when you ask why, it's because "life isn't fair".
However, various forms of fairness to balance out past wrong doings can always be achieved if desired, but it usually requires force or democratically if over 50% of people can unite on it.
>This argument can be used to justify whatever actions you want
Yes, which is why I wrote more than 3 words. It is why I used the cancer analogy. This generation is left holding the bag, and it has to be dealt with. Stomping your foot and saying it's not fair does nothing to cancer, nor does it do anything to climate change. I’m not saying a specific policy decision is right or wrong. I’m saying this generation has to deal with it, regardless of fairness.
> Then why do current generations have to pay for the profits that the previous generations have banked?
Because the vast majority of "profits" (externalities that were not paid for) were not banked, they were simply not paid.
Even if every person that enjoyed cheap fossil products in the past had the price difference on some separate bank account, taking that to fund environmental policies would be very difficult in western countries because of democracy and demographics (very difficult to get majorities when working against the interests of elderly voters).
> YES, nothing we can do about the corporate overlords who screwed us, let's instead claw it back from the current generation of people instead of from Shell shareholders, that's will go down well politically for sure and not cause extremist rise to power. How is this not a luxury belief?
Again, the Shell corporate overlords only siphoned off a very small fraction of the gains, even taking the whole corporation would be completely insufficient. The main beneficiaries in the past were not Shell and BP, but the end consumers instead.
Just heaping blame on corporations or past generations is not helping anything. You could certainly nationalize the whole petroleum industry and confiscate pension funds, but approaches like that have very detrimental side effects.
> It's not selfishness to afford necessities for a decent life especially when more and more of your paycheck goes towards taxes and necessities.
I would argue that if you discover that a past lifestyle was financed by unsustainably pushing the hidden costs of energy elsewhere (and into the future), then still refusing to pay those hidden costs after the discovery is the very definition of selfish.
It's cheaper for the current generation to deal with climate change than to ignore it.
You're effectively advocating for some small subset of that generation to try to disadvantage another larger subset, at a net loss to society, and hope they don't damage themselves in the process.
While complaining about selfishness of previous generations.
Depends on the country, but overall I'll say the opposite is true: cheaper is to ignore it. Climate change will not stop even if Germany switched to 100% renewables. And globally it is also not a top priority.
Basically this.
But he is probably rich enough to not care because the effort that will be asked of him will be small relative to his purchasing power.
So, he can pretend to be "good" for doing the right thing, while more unfortunate people will pay the real cost without any guarantee that the climate situation will improve and that their children will have a chance at a "better life". Not that they care that much because children are becoming unaffordable for much of the lower class.
The problem with the green ideology is that it's a global problem and clearly global fossil fuel use reduction isn't happening.
And the countries using it don't care because not using it is much worse than the promise of a better world in the future.
If your life is shit right now (compared to the rich world) the promise of a better world far out in the future is just propaganda.
History has unequivocally proven that the majority of big business leaders don’t give a shit about ethics. In fact, they will come up with whole new ideologies to justify their behavior (see effective altruism).
It’s worrying that we have to keep repeating this so often. The amount of people defending abhorrent behaviour with a version of “the CEO has a fiduciary duty to shareholders” boggles the mind.
The point is that we should seek more robust systemic change than petitioning business owners to be better people against their best interests (finance, power).
Appealing without any leverage is a losing game and describes where we are at currently
> The point is that we should seek more robust systemic change than petitioning business owners to be better people against their best interests (finance, power).
No, that is not the point being raised by the majority of the “fiduciary duty” defenders. But even if we concede that’s what some are arguing for, that is such a bizarre stance to take: “we want the same thing, and but I’ll criticise you and shill in defense of the CEO because the way you’re doing it isn’t extreme enough”. That is absurd and it makes no sense to think the person criticising the CEO doesn’t also realise that more robust systemic change is desired and necessary. But you can’t do that all at once.
Especially in the case of Meta when Zuck has set up share structure to give him majority control as long as he's alive and doesn't sell. He's about the only exec out there of a public company that doesn't have to answer to anyone else and can do the more ethical but less profitable thing. It's not like Meta at half its current share value and Zuck with "only" $130 billion net worth instead of his current $260 billion doesn't leave a viable company and perfectly good lifestyle for him and his family and whatever else he cares about.
The wildest thing to me is that reputation in the form of goodwill is an item on the balance sheet. Doing the right thing is very frequently something that can be claimed to be in the long term interest of the shareholders.
We let far too many people get away with the fiduciary duty defense for abhorrent behavior.
Acting in the interest of shareholders is an incredibly broad set of behaviors, up to and including foregoing profits for social and moral causes.
> This document specifies a way to create a stateful session with
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests and responses. It
describes three new headers, Cookie, Cookie2, and Set-Cookie2, which
carry state information between participating origin servers and user
agents. The method described here differs from Netscape's Cookie
proposal [Netscape], but it can interoperate with HTTP/1.0 user
agents that use Netscape's method. (See the HISTORICAL section.)
RFC 2965, make of it what you want but I agree with you. Actually, RFC 2109 is even older (1997) and says more or less the same.
So glad you made the phone call. Those numbers SAVE lives. Well, the people behind them, obviosuly, and they deserve praise and recognition, but they shun oth because... there is no better deed than saving a life.
So: that is Apple's CEO for you.
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