True enough, and I’d agree here that I might be anthropomorphizing too much.
So the animal and slaves examples (like factory farms or plausibly hunting/habitat destruction.) is a useful case of instrumental convergence, where getting healthy diets and making money are the instrumental values that result in catastrophe for animals and slaves.
Also, slavery was profitable, at least in my opinion, so much so that it funded effectively the majority of America’s wealth thanks to the cotton gin, which allowed massive wealth to be extracted from slaves.
True enough, and I’d agree here that I might be anthropomorphizing too much.
So the animal and slaves examples (like factory farms or plausibly hunting/habitat destruction.) is a useful case of instrumental convergence, where getting healthy diets and making money are the instrumental values that result in catastrophe for animals and slaves.
Also, slavery was profitable, at least in my opinion, so much so that it funded effectively the majority of America’s wealth thanks to the cotton gin, which allowed massive wealth to be extracted from slaves.
Here’s a link: https://faculty.weber.edu/kmackay/economics of slavery.asp#:~:text=Slavery seemed enormously profitable.,stimulate the nation’s early industrialization.
Another link, albeit more polemic than the last link: https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/8/16/20806069/slavery-economy-capitalism-violence-cotton-edward-baptist