Are you saying that no complex phenomenon is going to be able to provide only benefits and nothing but benefits, or are you saying that corporations are, on the balance, bad things and we would have been better to never have invented them?
Are you saying that no complex phenomenon is going to be able to provide only benefits
No. Maybe it is possible. I am suggesting that it is not automatic that our creations serve our interests.
are you saying that corporations are, on the balance, bad things and we would have been better to never have invented them?
No. Saying something has harmful effects is not the same as saying that it is overall bad.
I am illustrating ways in which our creations can fail to serve our interests.
They do not have to be onmiscient to be smarter in some respects tha
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