• fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
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    6 个月前

    I don’t think that’s a fair comparison.

    An ecosystem contains many species at equilibrium, but the ecosystem itself consumes all available resources.

    Similarly, companies within a capitalist system maintain a kind of equilibrium, but the system itself will consume all available resources.

    • naught101@lemmy.world
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      6 个月前

      The problem is the concept of externalities, which means that capitalism will happily overshoot our sustainable resource base, and then collapse. It’s the Minsky Moment at ecological scales.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 个月前

      An ecosystem contains many species at equilibrium, but the ecosystem itself consumes all available resources.

      But that equilibrium can be maintained by those resources being replenished within the ecosystem through the actions of components of that ecosystem.

      In our example, that’s not happening. The resources are being exploited and not replaced.

      • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
        1·
        6 个月前

        That’s true, but it doesn’t respond to the point I was making.

        The comment I replied to was comparing an entire system to a single component within a system.