• ExFed@programming.dev
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    6 days ago

    An entire article about capitalism and the economics of fossil fuels? Surely they’ll mention the fossil fuel industry is NOT a capitalistic free market, allowing it to actively suppresses the process of internalizing externalities (via environmental cost accounting), right?

    No mention? Bummer.

    They’re arguing the opposite? Whacko.

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      6 days ago

      Free market is a buzzword capitalists use to confuse the reality that capitalism’s basic goal leads to anti-competitive cornering of the market.

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        6 days ago

        Why do you all think so goofily?

        Either free market is a buzz word and so is liberal, which in this instance is being used as a straw man

        Or they’re both genuinely definable and it’s clear what they mean which makes neither a buzzword they’re just… words.

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          Listen, if you can’t tell what is propaganda and what is not you probably shouldn’t bother commenting.

          I was not speaking to the term liberal. It is not a buzzword, but it definitely is a masterful piece of propaganda that masks the reality that everything a liberal “stands for” is instantly thrown out the window when money is involved.

          This is seen in the two-tiered justice, political, and economic systems liberals are so proud of.