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I like your optimism, fairly unrealistic but the optimism is nice to see

On this point, it would be stupidly hard.

Just from a programming and software perspective. All the old code that runs banks and the back end of air travel. It barely runs as it is, do a switch up of years, even leaving the months alone and it would probably freak out. Standadize the months while you are at it and the whole thing falls apart.

Are you old enough to remember Y2K? That required a lot of techs to spend a huge amount of time fixing code that was never intended to see years change from 19xx to now just even consider 20xx.

That is before we go about changing paper Birth Documents, marriage documents, house deads, ..... Should I go on?

Endless meetings all focused around creating value for shareholders at any expense

This is an unexpected benefit of being in Switzerland. Here I was thinking it was more or less a marketing thing

Legally the product is no longer their priority, maximising shareholder profits is their priority.

Not many companies manage to not get twisted to a worse product for the customers, though their ads get really good

I mean in some ways what percentage of emissions come from NZ? The whole country could disappear and it would barely make a difference.

Surely they have bigger things to focus on?

Vegans hate this one weird trick

I feel like I am slowly moving all my data being with Google to Proton. Makes me a bit uncomfortable to be all under one umbrella again.

At least so far it seems they are a decent company

A culture of glorifying tans, mixed with needing a reason to show off your southern cross tattoo, beautiful weather and free public BBQs at parks and beaches.

Remember to slip, slop, slap

Worth saying I am sort of playing devils advocate here.

Change it to what? It is easy to back seat yell "Capitalism Bad" but change to what? Every other isim has it's own laundry list of issues. Which one is least corruptible by sosciopaths?

You don't think sosciopaths are going to take more than there fair share in socialism, or skew the system over time? They aren't going to find their may to the top in every single form of government to change the rules to their desires?

Quite a few will argue that we aren't even in capatalisim any more, it has been corrupted and changed, massaged by "government" to the point of failure, the Austrian school of economics.

So it is easy to stand on the roof top and say "Capitalism is the problem" but it seems like a much deeper rot to me

By that definition to get rid of capitalism we need to get rid of the people.

I was thinking about this the other day. I think no matter the system those willing to break the rules and find the cracks will always do so.

It isn't a capitalism problem it is a human problem