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This is a little like saying that because blood sugar disregulation can come from T1 diabetes that it can't come from T2 diabetes. Just because a socialist cou
by kelseyfrog 3y ago
This is a little like saying that because blood sugar disregulation can come from T1 diabetes that it can't come from T2 diabetes.
Just because a socialist country caused pollution, doesn't mean that capitalism cannot cause pollution for its own reasons.
- inglor_cz 3y agoIt is sort-of a warning for idealists who think that socialism treats nature better. I notice lionization of socialism among young Americans quite often, it is a distant and luring ideal for them, with no personal experience to correct the image. Pretty much the universal experience from east of the Iron Curtain was the opposite. Ecological initiatives were a part of the coalition of the unhappy that brought the regimes down at the end of the eighties.
- Retric 3y agoIf one economic system does X then it’s a function of that economic system, if every single economic system does X then it’s a function of humanity.
- kelseyfrog 3y agoYes, but an important distinction lies between every single economic system vs every implemented economic system. Extrapolating universal human behavior under the latter is, as I'm sure you would agree, tempting, but easily to blunder.
- Retric 3y agoI would argue humanity is the limiting factor for which economic systems get implemented. But I get your point.