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Re:Nearly half a billion small tech items thrown away by dragonwriter on Thursday October 12, 2023 @05:09PM (#37863182)
Arguably, any system of assessing and forcing people to pay for the assessed external costs is at odds with capitalism (it is arguably a form of central planning and interference with the free market).

Which is not to say that it isn't a good idea, and the minimum deviation necessary from capitalism to address externalities, but ideological capitalism/free-market purists tend to oppose it pretty strongly.

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Re:Nearly half a billion small tech items thrown away by saulpw on Thursday October 12, 2023 @05:29PM (#37863394)
"Capitalism" does not mean "free market". It literally means that the profits go to investors (capital) instead of to the workers (labor). You can certainly have a capitalist system that does not have a free market, and you can certainly have a free market system that is not capitalism.
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