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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (472854)5/5/2021 10:44:57 AM
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>>capitalist

Arguable - maybe a baby capitalist. Not sure that the term is particularly diagnostic of a moral, social or a political mindset.

My conspicuous consuming neighbor (with high-end sports cars and good intentions) tried to talk my wife out of using a low water landscaping based upon his assessments of the costs - arguing that amortizing over a decade - it wasn't really cheaper. Clearly the environmental impacts of 100,000 people not saving water in an arid environment didn't hit his spreadsheet - just the hard dollars we would have to spend personally "should be" the only consideration.

That is capitalism - typically with a complete blindness to any risk management of resources (or any off-balance-sheet risk for that matter). I suspect the business operated on your property won't leave the land depleted and scarred for millennia, with the wildlife exterminated. If it did and you didn't care - you'd be a full-blown capitalist.
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