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Re:The Case for Degrowth by tremon on Thursday August 11, 2022 @05:24AM (#32423333)
The unregulated free market mostly produces goods and services at less cost for the producer, which huge external costs to everything else.
Re:The Case for Degrowth by jiriknesl on Thursday August 11, 2022 @04:03PM (#32431032)
Do you have a proof for such a statement? AFAIK most of negative externalities are either negligible or easy to be sued for. Or a responsibility of informed customer.

Of course, there's that ultimate hammer of greenhouse gases everybody is using daily, but besides these it is hard to confirm this. And these have also many positive externalities (access to plastics, cheap energy) that cannot be ignored, otherwise we would live in carbon-zero economy already.

Re:The Case for Degrowth by WalterBright on Thursday August 11, 2022 @01:25PM (#32429035)
Really? Why then are communist countries the most polluted?
Re:The Case for Degrowth by the_only_law on Thursday August 11, 2022 @07:59PM (#32433296)
Do you actually have anything to say, or are you just going to avoid having to form coherent arguments by saying “what about communism” to anyone who replies to you.
Re:The Case for Degrowth by WalterBright on Thursday August 11, 2022 @10:48PM (#32434259)
If the claim is "huge external costs", since those are not quantified, then it's fair to ask "compared to what".

So I compared it to communism.

If you have something else to compare it to, feel free.