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Many individuals are pretty good at it. Many more are bad at it. Groups typically end up taking action based on the lowest common denominator. This is irrespect
by darkerside 5y ago
Many individuals are pretty good at it. Many more are bad at it. Groups typically end up taking action based on the lowest common denominator. This is irrespective of ideology.
- orf 5y agoIrrespective of a ideology focused around consumerism, overconsumption and short-term gain by huge corporations who pay no cost for the future damage they are causing? There isn’t any biological or otherwise necessary reason why Coke and Pepsi need to exist, and yet we are generating a huge amount of greenhouse gasses to produce it whilst choking the environment with their plastic refuse after it is consumed. I think it’s disingenuous at best to say “well capitalism has nothing to do with the current state of the captialist-run world”
- darkerside 5y agoAn authoritarian communist regime has proven to be just as focused on the short term, even more narrowly scoped to a small group of oligarchs, and without name of the positive byproducts of a capitalist society. Is there an alternative system that you have in mind? Because that's really the way to demonstrate this is a property of capitalism in particular, and not humans in general.
- exporectomy 5y agoCoke and Pepsi give pleasure to people. In a way, that's the most important reason for anything to exist. Do you want a world without any pleasures that have any environmental costs? What would it look like? What else wouldn't exist and what would you keep despite the environmental cost?