Someone ought to correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this has the same downfall when talking about the "free market solution" to any problem that someone identifies. Which is, to really spell it out for the kids at home, how can people buy the free market solution if the free market hasn't built one yet? I'm supposed to buy the FMS if I actually care about solving this problem, but the FMS doesn't exist because no one would buy it. At what point is someone supposed to have generated the FMS? Does the theory just assume that in any sufficiently industrial society there will always exist the right person, with the right amount of capital, also experiencing the same problem as everyone else, to "solve" it? Of course it does. It's a bad theory; it is quite literal nonsense.
According to them the free market solution already exists, but it's all about making some kind of correct consumer decisions. It's all about your actions as an individual consumer rather than any sort of society wide change in resource distribution. The solutions to them are like buy organic fruits, buy an electric car, buy the products from the corporations who change their logo to a green one. It's all about you personally buying stuff. And if the environment collapses? Well that's because you didn't purchase the correct products you complete imbecile. Your fault.
They have a bullshit response to this argument. They'll point out some pointless, expensive, green-washed products and say those are the the solution. If not enough people are buying those products it means the Free Market™ hasn't decided to solve this problem. They'll never acknowledge that the Free Market™ could make the wrong decision.
Someone ought to correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this has the same downfall when talking about the "free market solution" to any problem that someone identifies. Which is, to really spell it out for the kids at home, how can people buy the free market solution if the free market hasn't built one yet? I'm supposed to buy the FMS if I actually care about solving this problem, but the FMS doesn't exist because no one would buy it. At what point is someone supposed to have generated the FMS? Does the theory just assume that in any sufficiently industrial society there will always exist the right person, with the right amount of capital, also experiencing the same problem as everyone else, to "solve" it? Of course it does. It's a bad theory; it is quite literal nonsense.
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According to them the free market solution already exists, but it's all about making some kind of correct consumer decisions. It's all about your actions as an individual consumer rather than any sort of society wide change in resource distribution. The solutions to them are like buy organic fruits, buy an electric car, buy the products from the corporations who change their logo to a green one. It's all about you personally buying stuff. And if the environment collapses? Well that's because you didn't purchase the correct products you complete imbecile. Your fault.
Because the capitalists are super logical geniuses who would simply invent it if people wanted it
They have a bullshit response to this argument. They'll point out some pointless, expensive, green-washed products and say those are the the solution. If not enough people are buying those products it means the Free Market™ hasn't decided to solve this problem. They'll never acknowledge that the Free Market™ could make the wrong decision.