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[–] [email protected] -1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Someone had better have a communist revolution so we do have one like that, then.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

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