Earth's recent climate spiral.

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Nor is Western capitalism itself a monolithic thing either across time or space.   If one looks below a very thin layer floating atop the surface, then capitalism as a wholistic manifestation in a society, or style of capitalism if you will,  mean something quite different in Germany or France,  or Italy, to say nothing of the Scandinavia, compare to what it is meant in the post-Reagan US or post-thatcher britain.   Indeed capitalism take as a wholistic society wide thing, not just narrow sense of private ownership, meant something very different in the US and Britain of the post war era than it does now.

QED, these are all "the west".  I've heard that people also make things for profit in other places..and that consumers are very keen on aqcuiring these things from them.

Yes, and how much a few can make a profit at the expense of many, and what type of expenses that can be, before either they are stopped, or they are guillotined, or are invited to voluntarily contribute 80% of their ownership share in their privately owned capital asset for a small consideration of not being sent to an re-education camp, are quite different from place to place.