To save the environment, we must end the profit system
To save the environment, we must end the profit system
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"Part of capitalist ideology is that no matter what the problem, there is a technical fix. Because if there is no technical fix, then there is something wrong with the society, and the defenders of the society do not want to believe this."
Honestly, that's a pretty generous take.
Part of today's capitalism is "fuck you, I got mine".
I don't know if capitalism can or cannot be compatible with a living life supporting planet, but I agree that, forced to pick between the two, I'll choose the living planet.
Capitalists who love capitalism need to get their asses in gear and prove it can save the planet, if they want to keep capitalism.
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You know, people are inherently selfish. Don't know how do you want to design effective non-capitalist system around that
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The "selfish human nature" meme was basically invented as a post-hoc justification for the dysfunctional social systems that lead to people behaving that way, it doesn't actually hold up to scrutiny. Thomas Hobbes for instance was taking the cultural memory of the horrors of war and giving people an easy to swallow explanation, he wasn't an anthropologist.
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Just use the tax system. We don't need these huge movements to fundamentally change global economics. We just need to tax the things we don't like and it'll be unprofitable for businesses to keep doing them.
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