• Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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    16 days ago

    Businesses under capitalism aren’t required to pay for the externalities of their decisions. In a democratic economy, the people affected by corporate decisions would have a say in those decisions. It’s reasonable to assume that people want to breathe clean air and continue to have food and water, so they’d support policies that do that.

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      16 days ago

      Sure, but none of the economies we actually have (or recently had) work like that.

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          Judging by the communist revolutions we had so far, I’m not holding my breath for that.