Re: assuming we don't have a 100x unicorn improvement in battery tech anytime soon ...

On 7/31/26 10:13 AM, Wilson wrote:
> On 7/31/2026 12:19 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>> On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:16:14 -0400, Wilson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/30/2026 1:07 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:34:31 -0400, Wilson <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 7/28/2026 5:36 PM, dart200 wrote:
>>>>>> On 7/28/26 2:10 PM, Wilson wrote:
>>>>>>> On 7/28/2026 3:06 PM, dart200 wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> i still won't trust or support private companies running nuclear
>>>>>>>> shipping dud, ur just a negligent retard who willfully ignores how
>>>>>>>> that record was produced because ur nothing more than unrepentant
>>>>>>>> ideologue
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And you think centralized command and control is a panacea, 
>>>>>>> apparently.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> that's what produced the record wilson: a strict military hierarchy
>>>>>> dealing with life/death decision making, where command comes entirely
>>>>>> from within and is strictly audited in performance for actual decades
>>>>>> before given major positions of command
>>>>>>
>>>>>> on what basis do have to show that the private market will be 
>>>>>> anything
>>>>>> of that sort...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> just more _bear_ assertions, eh?
>>>>>
>>>>> Ah, so the best possible scenario you can imagine is a world that is
>>>>> based on a military structure.
>>>>>
>>>>> Got it.
>>>>
>>>> No, the implication is that profit motive does not provide the kind of
>>>> minds that society needs.
>>>
>>> There's this thing called ethics. The free market works best when the
>>> participants have a shared and broad ethical system that values (among
>>> other things) treating others fairly, the same way most of us want to be
>>> treated.
>>
>> Cool.  Let me know when the markets get within astronomical units of
>> that ideal.
> 
> Markets are a function, not a person. Only people can have ethics.
> 

governments are a function, not a person. only people can have ethics 
and therefore govts can't be immoral.

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