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Sec. of State Superique
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« on: August 17, 2013, 06:21:48 PM »

Is there any real viable path to a transition from a materialist, consumerist market economy to a non-materialist green market-based economy? Capitalism has been crucial to our society and it changed the whole dynamics of human beings but it's hard to say that it could exist on a society that is not based on growth anymore.

The centerpiece of Capitalism is about accumulating profits, thus Growth is a necessity of what-we-call Capitalism. It's hard to me to figure out a way that a non-matherialist society, which focus is not only on economic growth anymore, can co-exist with a the traditional capitalist thinking.

I'm an optimist, maybe the Utopia would be a green post-capitalist society.

What do you think of that? Feel free to talk about Green Marxism, Green Libertarianism, Buddhist Economics, Tim Jackson's Book (Prosperity without Growth), the Gaia Theory and De-Growth. Let's debate!
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« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2013, 09:32:11 PM »

Capitalism doesn't need to be about accumulating profits.  It can be about making profit that then goes back into the business enterprise to further it (of course there's going to be a desire for some accumulation of profit to serve as security for the enterprise). That furthering of the enterprise is itself a move toward a form of growth though, at least at the micro level.

I think that even if Economy stops growing significantly in the developed world, I don't see it really as a terrible thing and I don't believe that profits will end even with low growth economies. Dual Realities are supposed to happen soon in the Devoloped World, some sectors such as the high tech world would keep being highly profitable and dynamic, while traditional industries will totally disapear in the rich countries!
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« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2013, 09:37:09 PM »

Apple seemed to do very well capitalism wise when led by a Buddhist.
Steve Jobs and E.F Schumacher proposed totally different things. E.F Schumacher wanted to use technology to promote human's peace of mind and to help them (not substitute them) on their activities while Jobs wasn't worried about those .
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