Rules TBD.
“Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you capitalists do not. You move to an area and you exploit and exploit until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Capitalism is a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.”
Capitalism is a mode of production that formed by consuming other modes of production (regions which generally had more capital and usury control where they were highly developed for the time period) in the areas which constituted the main population centers and developments of civilization throughout history up until one millenia ago. West Asia, India, and China. Since then Europeans have engaged in a campaign of suffering so massive it threatens to extinguish not only ways of life but forms of life, entire damn categories of lifeforms.
Can I get a translation on this
I see that mindset in mega-corps, but at the smallest of scales... one can wash a car or fix a bike and add value to (and thus grow) the system, which logically means it's not closed/finite.
You just showed the system of value goes beyond making new products... But it is still finite, there will be only so many cars to wash (or more accurately, people willing to pay to get their car washed) or bikes that can be fixed.
It can be a big systems but it is finite
I'm sorry, it's difficult for me to follow your logic, but I really appreciate your time in responding. I know at one time there were zero bikes, now there are more than zero, and I suspect more will be created... same with money, so I don't understand how that is finite.
For discussion, perhaps it would be easier to reduce the complexity. In a capitalist system, if I own a fruit tree in an ideal climate then not only can it be duplicated, but either it will produce value by itself, or I will by picking its fruit. AFAICS this added fruit is more value, and the system has grown. Further I can then use this fruit to trade for bike repair or car washings. Is that not right?
There are only two ways of producing "value". You either extract resources from the planet or you use labor to enhance those resources. The value is in the problems solved by the finished product.
Capitalism requires that capital is invested in the manner which produces the most profit. Thus infinite growth.
There is not an infinite amount of resources or labor. The fruit tree extracts nutrients from the soil and requires water to be added.
I know at one time there were zero bikes, now there are more than zero, and I suspect more will be created...
Correct but, there cannot always be more bikes... At some point there may not be demand for more, or materials run out or become too expensive... Taken to the extreme, you cannot produce more bikes forever
For discussion, perhaps it would be easier to reduce the complexity. In a capitalist system, if I own a fruit tree in an ideal climate then not only can it be duplicated, but either it will produce value by itself, or I will by picking its fruit.
Again, globally we may produce x billion tons of fruit this year.... Maybe a few million more next year... Can we always produce more fruit (more as in a greater number than last year) forever?
Think longer term. Let’s go with that Fruit analogy. If you have a fruit tree in ideal conditions and begin growing more, eventually you will hit conditions that are not ideal. You can make them more ideal, you can buy more land that is ideal with the fruit proceeds. But eventually you will run out of land where it is possible to grow fruit trees. The supply is now limited. But before that, you will hit a point where people no longer demand the fruit, and your fruit is not worth the upkeep of your orchards.
So you increase the price to try and reach parity before you farm all the land, and you keep a store back for droughts and other problem periods. (Companies like DeBeers store back diamonds to hit this point artificially without risking a drop in demand)
Now imagine every person is trying to grow as many fruit trees as possible. That land runs out a lot faster and the saturation point is reached faster. The point where it makes sense to grow more trees is hit a lot sooner.
Advertising is another form of artificially raising demand. If you think you are hitting an equilibrium you have to start trying to convince people that your product is special and better than the other guy’s product.
Ultimately, the system is finite because land is finite, demand is finite, and people are finite. You can’t expect eternal growth in a finite system.
Capitalism is not based on the notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed, finite system.
Expand.
It's also not a closed, finite system because it relies on the extraction of resources and labor from outside of the imperial core.
sadly the earth is a finite system except for inputting radiation and outputting entropy
outside of the imperial core
The closed system refers to planet Earth.
what's that? is it an airplane? is it a rocket? no, it's Captain Obvious !!