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[-] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago
[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

You could have a non-capitalist society burning fossil fuels in the same way, and it would have the same consequences.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Probably, but probably there wouldn't be a push for keeping things as they are. No wait! Let's burn even more carbon

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Maybe, maybe not. You get what you measure. Bad incentives are a major contributor to the corruption that ultimately led to the downfall of the USSR.

Good policy and incentives make the difference. Capitalism and communism aren't all that different. In practice, they are still largely hierarchical with a few controlling things.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

No it would not. Capitalism enables destruction because you just need to pay enough money to stop the right people. Laws now have a subtle bidding to break. Your problem in this logic is not understanding the enabling format of our socioeconomics. Your correct but this is not how the world works the economy enables them so much worse than you can ever comprehend from what you're saying and a lot of people will never understand how enabling Capitalism is.

Communism is not different from capitalism they're both the same exact thing just the % of the population practicing. I literally just call it communism for the rich because it's the exact same thing.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I prefer omnicide

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