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This is an interesting viewpoint, thank you for taking the time to outline it. I do very much appreciate the premise of being free to try different approaches
by andrei_says_ 8y ago
This is an interesting viewpoint, thank you for taking the time to outline it.
I do very much appreciate the premise of being free to try different approaches within the framework of capitalism.
However all these approaches compete with actors who do not comply to good behavior and often use highly predatory tactics both internally and toward competitors.
Also, capitalism fails to account for external factors. Selling gas pollutes everyone’s air for free. Producing billions of plastic bags and bottles affects everyone’s oceans and rivers and surroundings, for free. Maximizing exploitation and squeezing one’s workers in an employer’s market creates dangerous levels of equality, chronic diseases and destroys families, for free. Extracting and exploiting attention from a full generation of children will cripple said generation in unpredictable ways, and is still allowed, for free. Same with the destruction of privacy, worldwide.
Capitalism is good at extracting and turning resources into money. It is not good in a world of limited resources.
And I’m not even mentioning the acts of lobbying and collusion which allow corporate entities to change the environment to suit them better than it does living human beings, not unlike a colonizing force.