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[inventor, showing their machine called "The awesome non polluting thing maker"] My awesome new invention will be a net positive to everyone's lives

[capitalist, smoking a cigar] Great! How can we restrict access to it and profit from it?

https://thebad.website/comic/capitalism_drives_innovation

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 43 points 3 weeks ago

"I invented a machine that removes the commercialism from Christmas."

"Let's build lots of them and sell them for a lot of money."

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Please donate to help stop the orphan crushing machine.

[–] Bad@jlai.lu 21 points 3 weeks ago
[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Heaven is where everyone on earth has learned to be hyper generous, hell is where everyone on earth is hyper stingy.

We can have either in just a few generations.

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

It would be profitable if they taxed pollution according to the damage it causes.

[–] Squorlple@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I can only read this in Gumball and Darwin’s voices due to the color palette