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In reply to the discussion: I'd love to believe that the global crisis we're facing is all capitalism's fault. [View all]MindMover
(5,016 posts)67. Again your assumptions are incorrect about my zones ...
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I'd love to believe that the global crisis we're facing is all capitalism's fault. [View all]
GliderGuider
Oct 2013
OP
Well, I respectfully disagree. The scarcity anxiety is caused by capitalist systems and memes.
ananda
Oct 2013
#4
Humans are greedy, I don't care if all you are doing is trading fur for potatoes. People will find a
liberal_at_heart
Oct 2013
#7
No, doing what I talk about won't change human nature or the physical situation
GliderGuider
Oct 2013
#9
To say that technology can't rescue us from a problem the technology created is
el_bryanto
Oct 2013
#14
The exponential growth of an innovative species always ends in some kind of wreck.
hunter
Oct 2013
#17
Profits are a risk-weighted return on assets; if assets don't grow, profits don't grow.
FarCenter
Oct 2013
#27
I'm so glad I have hope, and do something to nurture it within a realistic framework.
OneGrassRoot
Oct 2013
#23
I think the energy of capitalism can be harnessed to rebuild, renew and recycle. nt
CJCRANE
Oct 2013
#30
Yet it's not the socialists giving up and drinking bleach just yet. nt.
Starry Messenger
Oct 2013
#42
"It employs, directly or indirectly, all 7.2 billion people on the planet." = NOT
MindMover
Oct 2013
#57
You think those people working in agriculture are not indirectly employed by the system?
GliderGuider
Oct 2013
#58