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Also zeppo@lemmy.world. Not a lot of Zeppos out here.

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Capitalist economics is more complicated than that, though, since there are artificial boom-and-bust cycles. People do deserve employment.

The people really pushing the project were the developers, a few people who stood to make an outiszed portion of the money, and the apparently corrupt mayor who I’m sure was planning on lining his own pocket somehow.

Zeppo,
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Ha, yeah, I guess my intro made it sound like it went through and then was closed. I was so happy when it finally didn’t happen and the obviously corrupt politician was gone.

Zeppo,
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Sure, I agree with that. The idea that once people are making money a certain way it has to continue forever is harmful.

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It’s true, the way our capitalist system is set up it’s mainly the workers and less wealthy people in general who get screwed by progress and obsolescence. Wealthy people are very worried about it too of course, since something like phasing out coal could mean bankruptcy for them and they’d have to, oh no, get a job or something. Or you know, there goes the family dynasty… That’s harder to feel sorry for though, and it’s a lot easier for them to transition to something else, with some foresight.

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