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The thing that drives high costs is the bottom line: profit is more important than human lives. If you stick a gun in someone's face and demand they hand over their cash, you're a criminal. If you do the same thing with contracts, paperwork, and quarterly reports for Wall St, you're a CEO. There is no difference between these. One is camouflaged by the abstractions of profit and bureaucracy. But both are murderously violent, and there should be no legal or moral distinction between them. Likewise climate change and ecocide; online disinformation, media lies, and other kinds of semantic pollution; workplace violence, and other "externalities." Invention and daring can be good things. But when all you're contributing are death, stress, illness, mass bankruptcy, declining opportunities for most of the population, and other symptoms of corporate sociopathy, you are over the line. |