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and just like in biology, you need a system to fight the cancer, you can't just wish it away.
since we've refused to maintain such an immune system, we're now going to have to go through a miserable period of chemo treatment to rid ourselves of the tumors.
Where did this meme of "capitalism requires infinite growth, therefore it's impossible and bad" come from? Capitalism doesn't require infinite growth, the universe has basically infinite resources, modernity which is largely but not exclusively caused by capitalism has allowed us to do so much more with fewer resources than generations previous, and as societies get richer in material wealth they produce fewer children and have the luxury to pay attention to things like the environment and their impact on it.
in biology normal cells are controlled by nucleus and it's hereditory... so it is nepotism and zero rights for others so it's also bad thing like communism
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
Edward Abbey
🔝 Communists centralized economy.
What party of "worker ownership of the means of production" is too complex for you?
The genocide part.
Ohhh - you believe an obvious authoritarian regime when they said they're communist. I suppose you'll defend the DPRK as a robust democracy for the same big brain reason.
I'm not sure what any of this has to do with economics, but you've made your irrelevant, dumb, definitionally wrong point - I hope it brought you some brief satisfaction.
Ya done yet? Fuck off commie.
You're trying to insult me with a word you've just proven you don't understand, and you expect that to sting rather than look pathetic?
I'd tell you to just grab a dictionary, but with your tongue buried that deep in the arsehole of the billionaires that are robbing you blind, that'll be a bit much to ask - maybe take a step back, eh? Sort your life out.
You're too stupid for there to be any sport in this, and too ideologically chucked to learn - yeah - I'm done with you.
This is a popular take that is just completely wrong. Capitalism as a system does not require growth. Capitalism is a system in which the factors of production are owned by private parties and can be freely traded. The capitalists believe is that markets will allocate those factors of production to the owners that can best exploit them. This can result in growth, but it isn’t necessary for the system to function.
There are literally a thousand issues with the system ranging from inequality to environmental concerns to market concentration (all of which capitalists tend to ignore). I really do not understand why people pick this one to quibble over.
Time for degrowth
Easy to say when you live in the first world.
I’m a fan of capitalism with tight regulations and checks on corruption, personally
The very nature of capitalism facilitates concentrations of power, which will utilize that power to accumulate even more in any conceivable way. The system is fundamentally flawed and needs to be replaced if we care at all for basic human rights and a future for this species.