this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2023
10 points (52.2% liked)
Microblog Memes
5837 readers
1524 users here now
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
Rules:
- Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
- Be nice.
- No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
- Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.
Related communities:
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Sounds like a limit to me. The entire point is that economic models often don't take this kind of limits into account. Source: read a book
You need to re-read the meme. You're so close but you can't see the forest for the trees.
The meme makes fun of a post that compares capitalism to cancer by saying "all life is about limitless growth, not just cancer". This is wrong. Life "knows" its limits. Capitalism doesn't, neither does cancer
The only limit to life is the available resources, same with cancer, same with capitalism.
Life will continue until it ends or consumes the universe, just like cancer does with a human body, or a capitalist does to a society.
Life reaches a balance. Most parasites don't kill their host and even if they do, they won't kill the whole population which would kill the parasite itself. Cancer does exactly that. It kills just one individual but can't spread to others so it destroys its whole basis of being (since it's not a parasite).
Capitalism is on its way to do exactly that. It spreads over the world, exploiting resources beyond repair and just moves on. It expects exponential growth for some reason and that isn't sustainable. Life doesn't do that.
You can disagree but don't call me illiterate. I'm trying to keep calm and civil but if you don't understand my points, maybe you are stupid, not me.
I made a graphic in paint because I didn't have any crayons for you.
Feel free to replace Total Universal Resources, for "Human health" when dealing with cancer. Works as is for capitalism. as it does for life. As per the point of the OP.
What about a straight line? Do you know anything about ecosystems? There are sustainable ecosystems, obviously not for eternity but for much longer than capitalism exists
Hence the point. They really need to boost universal education funding.
What is the point? The original post talks about limitless for still the universe will end at some point so it's not eternity put "just" much longer than humans can imagine? That doesn't change anything about the capitalism critics of the original post OP makes fun of
The point is the part you're not getting. Obviously.
Reductio ad absurdum, is the point.