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Puerto Rico's population is close to 3.5 million people. How large of a population do you think it was able to support before industrialized capitalism? "The b
by Camillo 9y ago
Puerto Rico's population is close to 3.5 million people. How large of a population do you think it was able to support before industrialized capitalism?
"The bottom end of capitalism looks like subsistence tribalism"; how powerful, how insightful! Why don't we start with the fact that millions of those people would not be alive in the first place without the modern, evil, capitalist system?
- TeMPOraL 9y agoThere's a difference between demonizing the entire system, and just noticing its rough edges and failure modes. The latter enables discussion about how to mitigate the failure modes while keeping the overall system running.