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Oh no, you said his name, and like clockwork my precious upvotes have started to turn to downvotes :-) We agree, though. Capitalism is really, really good at g
by jjoonathan 9y ago
Oh no, you said his name, and like clockwork my precious upvotes have started to turn to downvotes :-)
We agree, though. Capitalism is really, really good at growth and really, really bad at steady-state. We've never really come up with a good alternative for steady-state. I think Marx got the diagnosis right and the treatment wrong, which seems like a pretty modest hypothesis given the relative difficulty of the two. Regardless, we had better figure this out or things will get messy. Very messy.
TBH I have higher hopes for a couple more industrial revolutions to push the meltdown out beyond my lifetime. Bio and space, maybe? :/
- internaut 9y agoWhat makes you think we invent systems like capitalism at all? If you could point out that you can read this, that would be great.