• joostjakob@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    …any economic system that does not take externalised costs into account. This is not unique to capitalism.

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      1 year ago

      You just gotta internalize the externalities. Carbon tax would probably do it. Not that it’s simple to actually do, but still.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not just economic systems. There is nothing in existence that stays the same without growing, or dying.

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      Capitalism even has the best mechanisms for addressing externalities. We just are not using them because they’re politically unpopular.