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Does capitalism drive population growth?
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Much as it pains me to be a damper on such rhetorical flourish, I fear it fails to disguise an utter want of substance and a clutch of straw men you lay waste to.
To begin with (again), why must we deal in cliches, or in this case stereotypes?
Who are "anti-capitalists", and are they the same for all seasons? I hadn't realised my disenchantment with the present system was so historically monolithic.
<Are the anti-capitalists really arguing that the fault of capitalism is that it is the cause of large numbers of people being alive and healthy who would otherwise be dead or diseased?>
I don't know. Seems rather morbid! Are they?
For myself, as I've said ad nauseam, I'm concerned that capitalism's fundamental dynamic, endless growth in a closed system, is unsustainable. To me the equation seems simple enough. This internal logic is not subject to alteration without its ceasing to "be" capitalism, yet if we don't turn the growth off, thus terminating capitalism, we will rapidly complete the job we're embarked upon: exhausting resources and running out of markets to cultivate. Indeed, logic dictates that capitalism is engineering its own spectacular demise, I only demur that we should perhaps intervene "before" the thing implodes? I suppose I should be grateful that we'll go out in grand style.
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