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Hey friends, just trying to get an idea of how people think of capitalism in different communities. What first comes to mind when you think of that word? Is it your national or international retail giants, resource extraction, or logistics companies? Or perhaps your local diner, hardware or convenience store? The black market? Or something else?

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I have degrees in both econ and poli sci and have worked at multiple Fortune 500 companies as a high level data analyst / software dev / db admin.

I got those degrees during the GWOT and GFC, and argued against bailouts without jailing those responsible...

...and got called a conspiracy theorist by a Poli Sci professor when I wrote a paper on 'conflict goods' about the US military guarding opium fields in Afghanistan.

Despite me citing my sources and even linking to an on the ground Fox News interview with a soldier who just straight up said that is what his unit was doing.

I also have studied the history of the industries I worked in, as well as just human history in general, in my spare time.

... I have also been homeless for a year or two.

I have lived a life of the extremes most people only ever come close to one of, stuffy and cocky corpo wealth and entitlement and social status jockeying mind games, and immense deprivation, near constant direct physical and mental trauma.

But if you would like maybe a more formal argument that capitalism objectively is raping the planet to death:

Here's London's Society of Actuaries, they've run the numbers and determined that our capitalism-driven, collective inability to stop climate change...

... is going to destroy the world, and thus future GDP projections.

https://actuaries.org.uk/media-release/current-climate-policies-risk-catastrophic-societal-and-economic-impacts/

My own guesstimate models point at something like 1 to 3 billion people dying in the next 25 years from the chaos that will result from increasingly extreme climate and climate disasters.

But those are roughly in line with more updated versions of MIT's old World 3 / Limits to Growth model.

tl:dr;

Why do I feel this extreme way?

Because I know what I am talking about, theoretically, practically and personally.

[–] dirigibles@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for the write up my friend. Was that Fox news report with Geraldo Rivera? I remember seeing something like that back in the early or mid 2000s. I couldn't believe my eyes.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I... don't remember if it was Geraldo.

I want to say it was a less well known reporter, who actually made the trek all the way out to... I think Helmand Province (sp?)?

But... yeah.

That was almost 20 years ago now lol.

[–] dirigibles@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Found it, fucking wild - https://youtu.be/AUATfLDiwVA

I still can't believe it. I'm watching it and it feels like I'm currently experiencing a fever dream.

[–] SpookyLights@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Marines weren't ordered to protect the poppy fields, they were ordered to not destroy them. Big difference

[–] masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago

they were ordered to not destroy them.

Most of the Afghanistan vets who I've heard talk about this doesn't seem to place much importance on that distinction.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Same here bud... its all gone so utterly, thoroughly wrong.

But hey, nice work finding that!