They lied to you. They made you believe the end goal looks like Coruscant or Trentor. Told you modernity and civilization will sacrifice nature but that something more beautiful will emerge. That it won't be easy for everyone, but overall, all will benefit from a planetary society. That is the lie. The end goal is Salusa Secundus. You will live in hell. We will turn on one another. You cannot escape. If you survive you will be fit enough to fight for the emperor. The emperor and his nobility don't live here, they are tucked away on Elysium. Good luck.

It's hard to know if the world would still suck the same under a different system.

But I agree lol

To be fair, what we have in most of the world isn’t actually raw/pure capitalism, most of the time called Laissez-faire capitalism. Most of the world has a mixed economy of different capitalism implantations across the board in different areas: state/regulated/corporate capitalism and best of all crony capitalism.

Regulated capitalism may actually work if we regulated it fairly and didn’t have megacorps writing the laws. But I don’t have that much faith in human nature to not keep fucking it up like we’ve done so many times.

unregulated captialism..

it wasn't always unregulated.

IDK if capitalism is evil on its own. It's just an idea. I don't know what the answer is, but I don't think if a better system is implemented in the future, that that would be a permanent solution for all of our problems either. It's all just the same cycle repeating with different faces and places.

I'm not saying that we shouldn't still strive for a better life for those who come after, and to take care of this planet like we can and should, but I think it's kind of silly to blame some ideas when we can just look in the mirror and see what the problem really is.

I dunno man. "Capitalism" exists because it's what we as a people just kind of decided to do. We picked it out of all the options available. I'm pretty sure that we would be doing the same thing regardless of whether or not something called "Capitalism" was ever actually named.

If we want to change that, we have to find a way to entirely change human nature, and that's a really big ask. I'd love it if it actually happened, but I'm not betting on it.

Okay but why does the picture look like someone put their phone on a flatbed scanner

It’s not capitalism per se. It’s the lazy, stupid populace that allows the system of regulatory capture we have.

The fossil fuel industry also gets a metric fuck ton of tax payer funded subsidies. That’s not capitalism. That’s a quasi state economy.

In a true capitalist system, we’d see more competitive forms of energy taking off, like solar and wind which are cheaper than fossil fuels at this point. But because the government keeps fossil fuels going, we’re not getting off them.

Hammer and sickle ... I grew up in post communist country, trust me, commies were raping the nature and people even more then capitalism. Find something else to blame.

the fossil gas problem is only about 50 years old. before that, levels were increasing but still manageable. carbon taxes were designed to be a solution compatible with capitalism

Who knew that you could turn an entire planet into a gas chamber?

Venus.

How will we prove that we're the pointy end of the food chain of we don't completely destroy everything below us?

"Why...there oughta be a law!" /s

Let's be fair, we've made plenty of species extinct just for the love of the game.