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by throw-the-towel 48 days ago
FYI, socialism also cannot work without infinite growth.
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Socialism works fine without infinite growth.

The problem isn't that it requires infinite growth, the problem is that as the scale increases the drag effect of those who consume more resources than they contribute grows faster than resource availability grows. There's a maximum size limit that's based on things like cultural sense of responsibility.

Large scale socialism maybe. It seems to work fine in small hunter gatherer bands.