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[–] millie@slrpnk.net 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh no! Not our capitalism! Where will we get all our poverty?!?!

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

It'll destroy capitalism by creating many new causes of poverty. There won't be enough food, water or shelter and it's not going to be fun.

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I want to say "don't threaten me with a good time", but we all know the first people to face the consequences of late-stage capitalism imploding are the ones that deserve it the least.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It will destroy capitalism by first destroying everyone and destroying every economic system everywhere.

[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If the US economy collapses because they elected a bunch of idiotic fascists rather than admit climate change is real, I don't know if corporations and the CIA will have enough money to fund enough mercenaries and propaganda to keep socialist revolutions suppressed. So maybe we will see actual left-wing economic systems popping up globally over the next couple years.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

Judging from past experience and history ... they'll probably burn the world first before that happens.

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

I'm glad something is destroying capitalism.

Wish we didn't pick "the hard way" but here we are.

[–] stephen@lazysoci.al 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And here I thought capitalism was on track to destroy our global ecology.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And I saw a post just a week ago about big banks planning to capitalize on climate disasters

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

It was their brokerage division recommending investing in Air Conditioning industry.

OP is a major statement by an insurer.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 months ago
[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is there a "Goldilocks" zone where capitalism is destroyed but some humans survive?

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can imagine it in a situation where we effectively go back to the stone age, with little to no trade between the small (<50) communities

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Iron age is plausible. Or the axial. Those were agrarian based economies. Some books would survive and preserve some knowledge.

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Humans will survive short of something on the level of soil collapse.

Not many, but some.

[–] alykanas@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

Sitting on my driveway, revving my engine.