This is an ongoing problem with the nature of Capitalism. In order to maximise profits you have to be truly innovative to charge more money, or you have to minimise your costs, and human labour is a massive cost, so what’s a board of directors to do? - ThreadSky

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henryneilsen.bsky.social • 108 days ago

This is an ongoing problem with the nature of Capitalism. In order to maximise profits you have to be truly innovative to charge more money, or you have to minimise your costs, and human labour is a massive cost, so what’s a board of directors to do?

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henryneilsen.bsky.social•108 days ago

What’s more, in most of these cases the responsible parties are the companies themselves, who operate as a set of intellectual ideas rather than manifest agents. So many times, it’s functionally impossible to punish those who have caused manifest harm.

henryneilsen.bsky.social•108 days ago

The company behind the Hawk’s Nest tunnel still exists. The web runs on Bezos’s AWS. And we all know what Musk is up to these days.

henryneilsen.bsky.social•108 days ago

Space travel is dangerous, incredibly so. The degradation of the muscles means months of physio when you’re up there. It can increase cancer risk, stuffs your skeleton up, it’s a bad time. I wrap this up into one thing, “Space Palsy” as a catch-all for the effects of the zero-gravity environment.

henryneilsen.bsky.social•108 days ago

The idea that people sent to space would be sent to what was effectively a death sentence, that the company in question would let their assets degrade to the point of danger, and the fact that a group of these people would eventually decide to say “screw it” and burn it all down, stuck in my head.

henryneilsen.bsky.social•108 days ago

But I wanted my story to have hope.

henryneilsen.bsky.social•108 days ago

Modern medicine is incredible. The work that researchers are able to do to construct and understand how viruses work and mutate is incredible. When I was writing Sunward Sky, I was following the development of the Covid-19 Vaccine, one of the most incredible joint human efforts ever achieved.

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