Yet more evidence that capitalism is inherently ecocidal, not because of malice on the part of anyone working with in, but just because of the way it functions.
"Some utilities may be forced to burn coal from their stockpiles to make way for new shipments and satisfy the terms of their contracts with mining companies"
- #BenjaminStorrow
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-coal-survive-the-coronavirus/
Nothing "capitalist" prevents these parties from renegotiating their agreements and contracts to stop wasting the goods delivered. This is anything but "structural".
As correctly noted by @incognitum seeing such silly reductionism a question logically arises: ok, so what's the alternative?
Then you realise that all known alternatives not based on market economy were event more wasteful and "ecocidal".
ok then lets convert all of these sociopathic corporations into cooperatives. markets are fine, but we still have the problem of concentrated wealth and power in many of the same family groups that held power before democratic revolution 200 years ago. we decentralized political power, but not economic power. about time we worked on the second bit, no?
@xj9
I'm absolutely fine with cooperatives, in fact you can start one today. If it offers customers a better experience than the corporations, you'll kill them off naturally! But I think you'll find instead that big government likes to do big favors for their friends in big corporations (e.g., trillion (with a T!) dollar bailouts... again) you'll have trouble competing :( so *actually* doing the first thing will make the second thing possible, or maybe even unnecessary.
@strypey @kravietz
make corporations illegal, mandate cooperative business structures if you want to play with States
@incognitum
> government likes to do big favors for their friends in big corporations
Goverment is, as an old ally used to say, an arena of class struggle. Obviously business people are going to do their best to use government to serve their interests (eg DMCA). Civil society can push back and try to use government to serve the public interest (eg GDPR). But the most important thing the state does for capitalists is enforce property claims. Check out:
http://c4ss.org/
sure. It happens in every capitalistic system, it only happens there, it happens everytime, it happens continuously, but is not "structural".
Well, you are right: it is just "automatic", "associated" and "inherent".
Capitalism started in 1800, so there were plenty of systems which were not capitalist , NOT based on market economy, plus working much better.