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In reply to the discussion: Stewart Brand: Why Environmentalists Must Accept Nuclear [View all]joshcryer
(62,296 posts)24. Capitalism required inequitible development globally.
It wouldn't have worked if all the developing countries grew as quickly as the industrial world. It wouldn't even have been able to be considered capitalism, because that's not a grow or die scenario. Populations would've been kept under 3 billion or less. Capitalism required a lot of low wage bodies to build everything out, and it happily fed those bodies to be our subordinates. As we can see in the developed world birth rates are either evened out or negative. It just goes to show what a good lifestyle with access to birth control can do for people.
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Sorry - it's actually low energy "transformity" that's the hallmark of low quality.
GliderGuider
Feb 2013
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