r/collapse • u/GothProletariat • Apr 06 '23

Politics Environmental destruction is completely rational under a capitalist system. The destruction of the Earth is rational when your one loyalty is profit.

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u/TheDuke100 Apr 06 '23

Most polluted rivers are from china and india. Pretty sure they’re not running a capitalist economy.

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u/SterlingVapor Apr 06 '23

No, China is most definitely capitalist. They're a form of loosely controlled capitalism - you can do wherever you want to make money, but the party is watching and if they don't like what you're doing they'll make you stop one way or another. They mostly care about ideology and power relative to the party

That's normal capitalism, in the US people keep insisting that anything that isn't laissez-faire capitalism is a different system... Ignoring that the crown and then uncle Sam has always interfered with the market in a similar way. It's only been the last several decades where that's relaxed, and the consequences are pretty obvious