None of the world’s top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use

[villager]

5. Been saying this for years. We've never had "Capitalism," in that "profitable" companies *never*

...cover their true costs.

Most of those are externalized to the rest of us -- the pollution (the interstate highway system, for example, as a benefit to the auto industry), the cost of extracted timber from public lands, etc., et al. The list is very long indeed.

What we have instead is socialism for predatory corporations, who don't really "compete." That, and a lot of mythology, to keep us separated from our own personal "capital." (Whether that's our labor, our earnings, or whatever else...)