It’s been extremely successful; then again, it has to be:<\/p>\n
> A capitalist economy, by definition, lives by growth; as Bookchin observes: \u201cFor capitalism to desist from its mindless expansion would be for it to commit social suicide.\u201d We have, essentially, chosen cancer as the model of our social system.<\/p>\n
[Ursula K. Le Guin](http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/ursula-le-guin-future-of-the-left), quoting social ecologist [Murray Bookchin](http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Murray_Bookchin)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s been extremely successful; then again, it has to be: > A capitalist economy, by definition, lives by growth; as Bookchin observes: \u201cFor capitalism to desist from its mindless expansion would be for it to commit social suicide.\u201d We have, essentially, chosen cancer as the model of our social system. [Ursula K. Le Guin](http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/ursula-le-guin-future-of-the-left), quoting…more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248,380,381],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-5405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-simplicity","category-sustainability","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1pb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5406,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405\/revisions\/5406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}