How do Republican Atheists deal with the externalities in economic models like these?
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"Butte has gone from being the richest hill on earth to the world’s most expensive reclamation project and the nation’s biggest Superfund site. The only good paying jobs in town these days go to the supervisors of those charged with cleaning up the mess and to the medical technicians who routinely test the blood of Butte’s children for arsenic and lead.
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The extractive industries of the West-the logging camps and mines-were as brutal on workers as they were on the land. In Butte alone, more than 2,500 miners lost their lives in the tunnels and glory holes. Perhaps, 250,000 were injured, many seriously. Others got sick from foul water and cancerous air. A health survey of 1,000 miners in 1914 found that at least 400 of them suffered from chronic respiratory diseases. The maimed and ill were forced to work until they dropped, then they were discarded like human mine tailings."
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Communism in Czechoslovakia had even more devastating impact on the environment and workers. Communism has also resulted in far more deaths and famines. The pros of capitalism outweighs any other economic system.
repubatheists
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Apr 9, 2019
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You most often resort to a "tu quoque" approach. Defend how capitalism isn't destroying our world by not factoring in the costs that they pass along to the rest of us.
Should be easy enough to do, no?
@WilliamCharles No system is perfect, but capitalism is certainly far from the worst.
Glob bless poisoning the planet with a less (debatable) rapacious system then, eh?
That kind of thing is virtually nonexistent in the states now days.
Trajan61
Level 8
Apr 8, 2019
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Predatory capitalism shitting on both the consumer and the worker is even more entrenched.
DAPL had state goon squads attacking and maiming protesters.
Cheesy crust, the article documents the present day outrages you say are now largely nonexistent. Pull yer head out, why doncha?
Cognitive dissonance and denial.
KKGator
Level 9
Apr 8, 2019
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You are nothing more than a left wing liberal troll.
@Trajan61 Sez the person without an arguement.
@WilliamCharles Don't pay him any mind. He always attacks me with nonsense.
He can't defend his positions, just like the rest of them.
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