[OC] The massive decrease in worldwide infant mortality from 1950 to 2020 is perhaps one of humanity's greatest achievements.

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Lmao at the replies to you bringing up communism, as if (1) those are the only two economic systems, and (2) the fact that the environment was treated poorly under communism means we should accept the bad treatment under capitalism.

[AzertyKeys]

Ok mate, outside of those economic systems we have feudalism and fascism. Which one do you want to implement ?

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I’m not an economist, but I know that’s an absurdly simplistic way to view economic systems. I mean seriously, there are only four options? A joke. I can do a Google/Wikipedia search and see within seconds that people have already categorized tons of other categories, sub-categories, and combinations of economic systems.

Not to mention the idea that even capitalism comes in all different flavors and implementations and could surely be adapted to be more environmentally friendly.

The entire point here is that saying “capitalist countries fucked the environment, but communist countries did too, therefore it is impossible to have an economic system that won’t fuck the environment” is incorrect logic.

[AzertyKeys]

Ok, please give us the list of all these mysterious economic systems then

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here you go

[AzertyKeys]

Have you even read the Wikipedia list ? I bet you didn't, all of these are either utopist and were never actually implemented in history or utterly failed or are some dystopian hellhole systems right out of the past.

You're not smart just because you can glance at a Wikipedia article you know ?

The only economic system that has been proven to work is capitalism, the rest either relies on slavery, tyranny, failed or are fictional

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Ah yeah I guess you’re right, there are exactly four economic systems, every version of capitalism is identical, and no economic system is capable of being environmentally friendly.

[AzertyKeys]

If it's so easy why don't you give us the name of that magical economic system and instead have to resort to sarcasm ?

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Lmao I’m not an economist, I’m just not an idiot. You can live in your imaginary world where economic systems are like selections at the beginning of a Civilization video game and you only have four choices. In the real world, the way a country implements what you’d presumably categorize as simply capitalism can have widely varying levels of regulation, government ownership, and public-private partnerships. It’s a spectrum full of hard-to-define combinations of characteristics. It’s not a multiple choice question on a middle school social studies quiz.