| from a more generalist viewpoint, we must consider not only the business models, but the mindsets behind them consider an example from another area. the assembly line and "k12 education".
a 'raw material' (but it's actually a child) enters an assembly line, every year they will be passed to the next part of the process, another professional worker will receive the product and will work on it/them for a year. Also notice how modern elementary education treats the teachers; they far too much like factory workers! low wages, they haven't much of a choice about how to do their jobs. Now consider the mindsets behind the successful GMO crops (+pesticide combos) that have been the money makers for these corporations. And consider the mono-crop mentalities and the above mentioned feedback cycle: gmo+pesticide kill the soil leading to more gmo+pesticide; it's a vicious cycle. it's a vicious cycle that keeps making more money!
(the assembly line was a great way to really manufacture lots and lots of munition for the war, it is a very effective technique to make stuff that will be sent to get wrecked in a war, in this sense it 'made a killing' as in made lots of 'money') and again, consider the mindsets involved. why are we educating children like they were cars in a production line? these corporations are full of people educated like I described, lowering our collective education quality in a longer feedback cycle far too large to be easily noticed; it's a 20-40 year feedback cycle, which has been reducing the quality of the living beings involved. we have a difficult problem, and no power to do anything about it |