tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post7641080216876795704..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Pricing Natural Capital - Long OverdueThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-75788293592276450762013-12-04T23:41:29.414-08:002013-12-04T23:41:29.414-08:00Do we destroy capitalism or shall we wait until it...Do we destroy capitalism or shall we wait until it collapses in on itself? Icarus had a choice. He didn't have to fly so close to the sun. Capitalism resembles Icarus without the choice. Its dependence on constant (and compounded) growth compels it to fly ever closer to the sun.<br /><br />Even Adam Smith foresaw the limit of growth capitalism and predicted it must run its course in just 200-years after which we would move to something remarkably akin to steady state economics.<br /><br />What Smith failed to foresee was a world population that would expand from one billion at the outset of those two centuries of growth to exceed seven billion at the end. The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-84144284749171563572013-12-04T22:22:41.327-08:002013-12-04T22:22:41.327-08:00Capitalism Delenda Est.Capitalism Delenda Est.Purple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.com