Big oil for the planetary destruction
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
casually watching the build back better fiasco my impression is
big pharma > big oil > big tech
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
tech blasted well past oil over the past 10-15 years
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 18:14 (two years ago) link
Big oil has the entire globe by the short hairs to a degree that big tech or big pharma can only dream of.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
― suggest bainne (gyac), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
big oil >>>>>>>
― flopson, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 20:32 (two years ago) link
or maybe that should be <<<<<<
big oil orders of magnitude worse than the other 2
― flopson, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 20:33 (two years ago) link
i guess this is obviously big oil.
maybe a more interesting question would have been big pharma vs. big tech? like, both are viewed as generally providing good things, but there's a lot of evidence to the contrary.
i really started this thread because i feel like pharma isn't discussed as much relative to the power it has. but maybe not. i really really started this thread because i went to dinner with a friend who works for a pharma company last night, it was very expensive and he paid for all of it on the company card.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 20:40 (two years ago) link
Even right-wingers blast "Big Pharma" and "Big Tech" these days.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 20:54 (two years ago) link
Oil still has the power to get governments overthrown.
Pharmaceuticals' greatest power is in the US and it's mostly limited to the rent-seeking/immiseration combo. Pfizer isn't going to talk anyone into invading over pills probably.
Tech is soft power - penetrating every layer of humanity but doing its greatest damage by its inaction. Tech has potential going forward as the replacement for the state.
I'll go with oil for now.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
big pharma's power is relatively narrow
big oil is powerful and destructive, but it can't gain much more power than it already has
I am old enough to remember life outside the digital aquarium and voted for big tech in a heartbeat
― Brad C., Wednesday, 17 November 2021 22:33 (two years ago) link
If you look at the market cap of the industry, tech and oil are way way bigger than pharma. "Tech" can be defined different ways though, whereas oil is oil.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 18 November 2021 03:04 (two years ago) link
doesn't have to get anymore powerful than it already is; it could even decrease substantially in power and still destroy the world
― flopson, Thursday, 18 November 2021 03:07 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Without oil, there is no tech and no pharma. Plastics, glass, most manufacturing processes, most organic chemical components - all dependent on hydrocarbons, if not directly as feedstocks then the heat and electricity produced by them.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 03:10 (two years ago) link
i think when i answered this i had misread the question as 'which is the worst'. i still think my answer is oil, but it's closer
― flopson, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 06:43 (two years ago) link
i think when i answered this i had misread the question as 'which is the worst'.
feels like a lot of ppl in the thread did, or assume it's the same thing?
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 12:03 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 25 November 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/banana-republic/
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link