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>Companies have no interest in anything but furthering their own goals, typically to make money without any attribution of the collateral costs such as environm
by omegaworks 7y ago
>Companies have no interest in anything but furthering their own goals, typically to make money without any attribution of the collateral costs such as environmental vandalism.
These kinds of companies are precisely the form in which capitalism has shaped them. Cost externalization (collateral costs, as you call them) are a competitive advantage, and under an improperly regulated capitalism these entities are incentivized to find and exploit every single one of these advantages to dominate and eventually monopolize their market.
What we are debating now is if it even possible to create a system of properly regulated capitalism. Will capitalism necessarily exhaust the planet, capture and subsume every form of regulatory control and destroy itself.
- andrewstuart 7y agoI agree. I think our current form of government is completely unsuited to saving civilisation. There will be an environment driven revolution within 20 years. The current generation of children will include deeply radicalised kids so disillusioned with government that it will lead to an overthrow. Exactly what that will look like cannot be predicted. I think it will be violent because the government has so many protections in place to prevent fundamental change, but that is what future generations will want, due to the dying earth.
- omegaworks 7y ago>There will be an environment driven revolution within 20 years. Whether it takes the form of eco-socialism or eco-fascism is the choice we have to make.
- crispinb 7y ago> The current generation of children will include deeply radicalised kids so disillusioned with government that it will lead to an overthrow. We're seeing hints of that now, and it's one of the few chinks of light. I don't see how they can succeed, but I don't take my own predictions too seriously