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
big oil is powerful and destructive, but it can't gain much more power than it already has
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