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[–] 60 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Good news: with every passing day, it's becoming more and more obvious that capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with democracy and ecology.

Bad news: we're still about to pass environmental thresholds that will have irreversible consequences, and likely lead to an ecological catastrophe.

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  • [+] -10 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    Really? Can you point to a democracy that has done much of note that doesn't have an economic system based on free market capitalism?

    NASA spearheaded the tech behind megawatt wind turbines. Bell Laboratories built the first practical silicon photovoltaic cell. England and the US perfected Hydroelectricity.

    Unbridled capitalism is the problem. Well regulated and taxed free market capitalism has proven it's self quite well.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Really? Can you point to a democracy that has done much of note that doesn’t have an economic system based on free market capitalism?

    *points to a bombed-out shell of a city*

    *points to a council massacred by some suspiciously well-armed drug gangs*

    *points to a nation that has survived centuries of economic siege*

    For some reason, wealthy liberal democracies get kind of angry whenever you try something other than strictly regulated neocolonial capitalism.

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  • [+] -10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    What? You mean global cartels controlling a plurality (if not majority) of the world's wealth break the free market? Say it ain't so!

    Seriously, getting everybody to forget the basic fact that the fossil fuel industry is a cartel is one of the first priorities of the fossil fuel industry's propaganda playbook. This article might as well be written by one of their FUD propagandists.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Cartels are natural parts of capitalism, I don't know why you're pretending they're somehow not capitalist for using the mechanisms of capitalism to gain control of capital.

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