• lugal@lemmy.world
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      Many capitalist models depend on exponential limitless growth. That doesn’t exist in nature

      I mean, that doesn’t change much. There ain’t no other limitless growth in life, is there? The key difference between exponential logistic growth is that the latter has a limite.

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          Do you know any useful biological models that are limitless and not exponential? You seem to think that “life is based on” them?

          Also the exponential discussion is a red-herring. You just picked out a detail that was misstated, and pretend to win.

          Now seriously, have you ever heard anyone claim life is based on unlimited growth (outside of this meme)?

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              until the resources or something else intervenes

              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

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                Sounds like a limit to me. The entire point is that economic models often don’t take this kind of limits into account.

                You need to re-read the meme. You’re so close but you can’t see the forest for the trees.

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                  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

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                    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.

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                    So what limit does life know about time? Or will it continue for eternity?

                    Also might want to look up that latin phrase, I didn’t put it there because it sounded like a fancy spell, it’s a legitimate train of philosophical thought that you obviously have no comprehension of.

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          Limitless as in time, not quantity.

          What does that even mean? Time is on the x-axis, what is on the y-axis if not quantity?

          Your entire premise is false because you’re illiterate.

          Sorry for reading the wrong books apparently…