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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Replying to @_leftcat @Outsideness and
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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Replying to @_leftcat @Djomo_Arigato and
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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Replying to @Outsideness @Djomo_Arigato and
Right, I don't dispute that some animal populations can exhibit explosive growth (although most don't under "normal" conditions). I'm disputing the claim that individual organisms accumulating of reserves of energy is analogous to firms accumulating capital.
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Replying to @_leftcat @Outsideness and
It's commodities/capital which are overproduced under capitalism, not firms.
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If it were that simple bankruptcy would have no raw material to work on. Just as with nature generally, you're missing the constant humming from the butcher's yard.
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