: Why do so many of you people believe that there is only one big pie and you can have only so much of it? How can someone be earning money at someone else's expense? Why can the pie not enlarge? I see no reason why not.
: Isn't "the pie" to be exploited by profit-hungry capitalists really the entire planet, that ball of gas and dust and green leafies we call Earth? It's easy to answer "yes," especially if you look at the market tactics of a company like Coca-Cola, whose stated intention is to penetrate every market on Earth. I have repeatedly posted that if capitalist development comes up against any specific barrier, it is the ability of the planet to sustain rapid rates of environmental exploitation brought on by exploiters of the commons, whose capitalist incentive is in outwitting competitors by flooding the market with wood, fish, etc., lowering the price and driving them out of business so that one can set one's own prices for a commodity. The link I suggested tells part of the story. The capitalist market game provides a short-term incentive for overexploitation.
I posted another link with the word "die-off" in it, in another post, which provides the graph one can read about in Meadows, Meadows, and Randers' book BEYOND THE LIMITS, which predicts that in about 30 to 40 years, capitalist exploitation will come up against certain resource limits (most importantly, the dry-up of the world's oil wells), and will have to beat a retreat at that time. Feel free to challenge the arguments of BEYOND THE LIMITS; part of me would like to believe they're wrong. They probably aren't.
So if we are to enlarge the pie, we send the capitalists out to another planet, to exploit it? Could we round them all up and put them all on the same spaceship, to duke it out for which one will corner the planetary market first?
