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BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoImplies Capitalism is not at fault, proceeds to outline precisely why State Capitalism is melting down over declining birthrate. This comment is so ironic it cured my anemia.
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BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoImplies Capitalism is not at fault, proceeds to outline precisely why State Capitalism is melting down over declining birthrate. This comment is so ironic it cured my anemia.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
If every economy is capitalist no matter degree of government planning, regulation, & control, then by your standard non-capitalist economies are a myth.
Demand for population growth is a general problem of economic growth rather than type of economic system. Before capitalism, even subsistence farmers would bear more children for the additional labor.
Central planning economies can be as or more destructive than the more capitalist ones: type of economy seems to have little bearing there, too. The USSR aggressively industrialized & would consistently pursue economic growth (to raise standards of living). It comes up in the Soviet constitution of 1977:
Despite their command economy, their pollution was proportionately worse than the US’s
Their planners considered pollution control
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And this generously glosses over the extent of water contamination, hazardous dumping of toxic & nuclear waste into oceans, etc.
The dependence on labor, capacity for environmental destruction, and demand for economic growth are not particular to any type of economy: they’re general.