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Liberals Can't Address the Climate Crisis Because It Means Confronting Capitalism (www.currentaffairs.org)

submitted 1 month ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/climate@slrpnk.net

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[–] Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month 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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[–] ExFed@programming.dev -4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

The ability to weaponize capital markets doesn't make them inherently bad.

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[–] Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Nobody said that, I'm simply pointing out that cartels are part of capitalism, free market or no, and don't "break" anything. They're an inevitable consequence of the system.

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