Of course at any given time there is some Malthusian limit to the human population given current technology and capital accumulation, but capitalism increasing that limit over time.
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Replying to @_leftcat @Outsideness and
Your argument amounts to saying that we risk overshooting the carrying capacity by raising the carrying capacity.
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Sure there's a difference, but there's also similarity. Firms seeking to maximize capital accumulation is analogous to species multiplying themselves and thus capturing resources.
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They capture resources in their own bodies. A population will grow to the limit that the environment permits. On an infinite field of grass with no predators, rabbits will reproduce endlessly, thus capturing ever more resources.
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Replying to @Djomo_Arigato @Outsideness and
Rabbits don't eat/grow limitlessly, they're mortal, there are no infinite fields of grass irl, and there are predators, decomposers, etc. in addition to rabbits The dynamics you're saying are "natural" can't actually be found in nature without this uselessly abstract perspective
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Rabbits, no less than capitalist entities, tend to increase without limit, and are cropped by ecological constraints. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @_leftcat and
... I'm sure you've heard the "Capitalism is the ideology of the cancer cell" line. To which the response is "Sure, and why not of the microbe, or in fact any species?" Head hard into Malthusian limits and be edited at the grinding stone.
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