Comment by Phenomenit
3 years ago
Depends on your definition of success.If one is Thinking of the long-term viability of the human race then capitalism can only be seen as a disaster if you look at it from a ecological perspective.
3 years ago
Depends on your definition of success.If one is Thinking of the long-term viability of the human race then capitalism can only be seen as a disaster if you look at it from a ecological perspective.
Capitalism doesn't happen without state and it is defined by the state, so it's a failure of state regulation, not capitalism itself. States must set different regulation and/or incentives. It's perfectly possible to have 100% ecological capitalism.
Capitalism is the engine behind the pay-to-play nature of the political processes and the supporting propaganda that triggers those failures.
You cant separate capitalism from, for example, the decades of amplified Koch propaganda attacking environmental regulatory prudence and buying up politicians. The Kochs respond to incentives just like everybody else.
>It's perfectly possible to have 100% ecological capitalism.
Only with a shallow and one dimensional view of what capitalism really is and how a state actually functions.
Pay-to-play happens in every single society. The bigger the government, the more benefit there is in engaging in this behaviour.
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> Capitalism is the engine behind the pay-to-play nature of the political processes and the supporting propaganda that triggers those failures.
No it's not. Greed is. Corruption happens everywhere, and as ever, a Communist state where government is far more powerful will be more corruptible.