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Re:How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the ... by x3n0ph3n3 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @08:49PM (#20290810)
What you described is called "corporatism", and we can agree that it's a major problem. Assigning the flaws of corporatism to all of capitalism is to miss all of the good capitalism has done for the world.
Re:How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the ... by majormajor on Thursday June 27, 2019 @12:05AM (#20291677)
We called what we have today capitalism before we realized the bad parts. Now that we've realized the bad parts, we need to change things to address those bad parts.

The more logical recipient of a new name is the new, fixed-capitalism you should be pushing for. Saying "oh the bad parts aren't capitalism, that's corporatism, that's different" is just playing word games to try to hide the fact that what we're doing isn't working as-is.

Re:How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the ... by thaumasiotes on Thursday June 27, 2019 @02:30AM (#20292190)
"Corporatism" is a new word to me, so I'm inclined to agree that it's probably not a good idea to push for its use.

On the other hand, there are some much better established words for a close partnership between the state and a set of established major businesses: "crony capitalism" and "fascism".

"Fascism" isn't really a good idea either; in modern use it appears to be nothing more than a synonym for "badness".

Re:How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the ... by mschuster91 on Thursday June 27, 2019 @06:16AM (#20293103)
> Assigning the flaws of corporatism to all of capitalism is to miss all of the good capitalism has done for the world.

At what cost, though? Sure: us Westerners are way better off than 50 years ago, but the effects that capitalism has had on the environment (especially global warming and natural resource exploitation) are on the best way to totally wreck the planet for our children, and I don't want to get started on the plight of those in the poorest regions of the world that have gotten even poorer in the same timeframe.

Re:How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the ... by agent008t on Thursday June 27, 2019 @08:03AM (#20293653)
Which regions are poorer now than they were 50 years ago?
Re:How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the ... by mschuster91 on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:59AM (#20305681)
Have you ever looked at the sad state of African textile and agriculture industry? All but wrecked thanks to Europeans dumping old cloths and overproduced food in Africa disguised as "help".
Re:How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the ... by JetSpiegel on Saturday June 29, 2019 @03:58AM (#20311379)
The African market for "African"-style wax print fabric (the stereotypical African clothing style) is dominated by a Dutch company called Vlisco.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/fashion-gains-a-f...