
Price of gas, cost of living, difficulty purchasing a home, Iran, North Korea, wildfires, relationships with allies, money in politics, lobbying, Israel, cost of healthcare, climate change, investing in renewables, ICE, national park cuts, rampant racism, capitalism in general, insider trading, Epstein Files, lying about election fraud, mining/drilling, salaries not increasing much, low birth rate, AI/data centers, water crises, imported beef, disease outbreaks, vaccine disinformation, etc
I think “capitalism requires infinite resource consumption” is too simplistic. Capitalism requires growth in economic value, but that doesn’t necessarily mean infinite physical resource consumption. The challenge is decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation. I’d argue technology, better incentives, and pricing externalities are more promising than assuming capitalism itself is inherently incompatible with a finite planet.