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Capitalism is not inherently wrong. It is a system of allocating productive resources, with tremendously positive benefits, and terrible drawbacks. You are o
by parasubvert 8y ago
Capitalism is not inherently wrong. It is a system of allocating productive resources, with tremendously positive benefits, and terrible drawbacks. You are offering an alternative utopian solution - Anarchism - that comes in many forms, one of which is Anarcho-Capitalism, or "even more capitalism", but you hand wave this away. I empathize with some Anarchist theory (Proudhon and mutualism comes to mind) but it's going to take a tremendous amount of time and strife to flesh out such a system.
Coinciding with this report on wildlife, it turns out the countries with intact remaining wilderness are varying degrees of capitalist (Russia, Canada, Australia, the United States, and Brazil): http://time.com/5441282/five-countries-worlds-last-wilderness/ http://time.com/5441282/five-countries-worlds-last-wildernes... I believe that unchecked, unregulated anything (including capitalism) is what is depleting our world. Social democracy as a check on these impulses is sorely needed, but unfortunately in regression everywhere in favour of strongmen to hand wave these problems away, or blame some minority.
We also need to look beyond our world in the long run.