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this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2024
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This is absolutely an important idea, but in the context of anti-capitalism I think there's a kind of catch-22 at play. The alternative systems that operate under a capitalist paradigm have serious externalities that come back to bite us whether we engage or not with them. My wife and I have spent some late nights over the last week trying to help family and friends in North Carolina keep track of which roads are usable, who is or isn't confirmed to be alive yet, etc. Maybe I'm a little extra feisty about climate change today, but it seems like while the alternative doesn't have to "win" in the same way that capitalists want to we do still need them to lose. Existing independently in parallel isn't a sustainable end goal, though I do agree that parallel structures are an important part of the solution.