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minus-squarejoostjakob@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down4·11 months ago…any economic system that does not take externalised costs into account. This is not unique to capitalism.
minus-squareDarthBueller@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·11 months agoYes. The keyword for learning more about this is “externalities”.
minus-squarerchive@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agoYou just gotta internalize the externalities. Carbon tax would probably do it. Not that it’s simple to actually do, but still.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·11 months agoIt’s not just economic systems. There is nothing in existence that stays the same without growing, or dying.
minus-squareSCB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down5·edit-211 months agoCapitalism even has the best mechanisms for addressing externalities. We just are not using them because they’re politically unpopular.
…any economic system that does not take externalised costs into account. This is not unique to capitalism.
Yes. The keyword for learning more about this is “externalities”.
You just gotta internalize the externalities. Carbon tax would probably do it. Not that it’s simple to actually do, but still.
It’s not just economic systems. There is nothing in existence that stays the same without growing, or dying.
wrang.
Capitalism even has the best mechanisms for addressing externalities. We just are not using them because they’re politically unpopular.