tapevulture Is there not an issue here relating to the class of capital as a whole? As in, there is a difference between what’s good for individual companies, or capital on the national level, or even different sectors, and what is good for capitalism as a system? Environmental destruction, lack of social and political legitimacy, low wages and poor job security making people unable or unwilling to consume etc are not exactly ideal conditions for capitalism as a global economic system in the long run, but for almost any given individual company keeping wages down, ignoring environmental concerns and being close to politicians is ideal.
Then again, and this is actually kinda interesting, the last time the capitalist order was actually seriously challenged in the west was in the 60s and 70s, a time when Keynesianism and social democracy were at their peak; what’s to say an order that makes capitalism less blatantly murderous (to the working classes in the imperial core, that is) is actually better for its health?