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[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The saddest thing about this is that I've been hearing this joke since at least the 1990s.

[โ€“] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This particular joke is from 2009.

So yeah.

God forbid we do something to improve the world without a profit motive.

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Even though the profit motive would be healthier people, and happier people, and numerous studies have shown happy, healthy people are far more productive in a orwellian people-as-product labor kind of way.