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Old 01-11-2004, 02:44 AM   #7 (permalink)
Lebell
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Originally posted by Strange Famous
Capitalism cannot operate in any way other than that which creates the greatest accumulation of further capital, or which makes the greatest profit.

Companies are powerless, literally powerless, to prevent themselves polluting the environment in any way that can make a profit - if the state is also captured by the interests of capital, then it is hopeless - you have a situation where the most advanced nation in the world refuses to sign up to greenhouse gas limits and the world in 100 years will be in many ways a hostile environment to life.

False.

That is a simplistic model of capitalism.

More advanced models take into account other factors that affect the company's health and hence long term profitability.

These factors include the community, the workers and the environment.

Only the greedy short sited ones do not acknowledge these other factors and ruin perfect capitalism.

Sorta like the greedy short sited ones who ruin perfect communism
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