KaiserJeep wrote:The thread topic here is ridiculous in any case.
Capitalism is the only form of economy that ever worked anywhere at any time. To propose to end it and replace it with something that has never worked anywhere at any time is a non-starter of an idea.
Naw, history goes back more than 50 years.
There have been a lot of -isms that lasted hundreds of years. Capital is just yesterday's' excess labor—capitalism didn't even get started until industrialisation and cheap energy allowed specialization and productivity increases to the point that it was easy to skim a little excess labor off the top...
The US is not some market economy stronghold, there is no pure market economy outside of maybe Somalia. All functioning governments exert more or less influence over their economy. The US is a mixed economy, part market, part command; more free market than some less than others, it's all right there in the constitution.
But yeah the article in the OP says
We need to fundamentally re-evaluate our relationship to ownership, work and capital.
...but never gets around to how that will end climate change.
A mixed economy is probably the only viable system in an industrial world. It can be as darwinian as its citizens allow or as socialist. Markets are most efficient but without government intervention there is no viable way of limiting the transfer of costs to society, like pollution. Don't you remember when you couldn't see across the bay—or even wanted to see the bay? Do you think capitalism fixed that?
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In an entirely different argument, completely aside from CC, "productivity" is on it's way to infinity because ever fewer humans are required for a given level of production. At some point the welfare state will be forced to expand lest the guillotine become fashionable again. Although that would make the climate hotter for some.
[ur=https://www.thebalance.com/mixed-economy-definition-pros-cons-examples-3305594l]PS bunch of good articles here[/url]