Why didn't he just replant the trees after chopping them down?

He could have even sold the fruit that was coming off of them

But OP, capitalism is evil and not eco-friendly.

How bad could it be?

Indeed. He is a shitty business man for not ensuring that his supply could meet demand as long as possible.

He was not a smart man

He is the Once-Ler.

He will fuck you once, JUST ONCE, and leave you wondering what might have been for the rest of your life.

The point of the BOOK and not the fucking shitty movie (which is fucking awful) is a lot of businesses really ARE that retarded because a few people that happen to work within them, they only care how much money they make in THIS QUARTER even if everything is fucked to hell forever next quarter. It's not "capitalism = bad," it's "people = stupid" a lot of the time.

Let's say I plan to run my business into the ground but get a golden parachute of $30 Million and/or sell off bits of it, it will screw over my fellow executives, my engineers, my accountants, my lawyers, my science team/researchers, everyone. Oh yeah it kill all the other people who live in my state or whole region too including little kids.

I could do that. I will take my $30 Million and move to an island while everyone else is ruined or killed and society collapses.

I mean, people do that. That's what the ACTUAL BOOK is about. Fuck, people do that even if it screws themselves over because they are retarded. It's about human stupidity, not capitalism. Many people are stupid.

How insightful :)

well at least in the first cartoon adaptation of The Lorax, they specifically bring up that Truffula Trees take years to grow, let alone be productive

The guy was an idiot, he had complete and total control of the supply, and demand was high without showing any signs of backing off, he could have just chocked the market and put the prices through the roof for every single tree. But the guy was a beta faggot that had to follow his mommys rules.

And don't forget that the original Once-ler also brings up employing all his workers. Sure, it's an in-universe cop out to keep cutting down the trees, but at least it's a little true.

Fuck that book is genius.

He was short sighted, and wanted to make a quick buck. He says over and over again that they will NEVER run out of trees, and doesn't realize otherwise until the last one fell. He didn't replant the trees because assumedly they were all chopped down at a time where they weren't producing seeds, like imagine if they produce seeds in the summer and those seeds all die in the winter, and he chopped them down in the spring. Too late for the last batch, too early for the next batch. Of course seeds still exist, but they are guarded by people like the Lorax.

the book says they take 10 years to grow

because this isn't the truax, it's a bunch of eco-nonsense
if they wanted it to reflect genuine problems, the onceler would be clearcutting the truffula forests to raise beef in an environment that's terrible for that and way better for truffula, but god dammit people aren't buying truffula at the same price as beef and he's a starving piece of shit that lives in a forest that has been killing his people for thousands of years so he isn't exactly fond of it

The moral of the original book isn't that people are greedy or that people are stupid. The moral is people are PRIDEFUL.

Even the Lorax' own pride sabotages his first attempt to dissuade the Onceler because rather than explain why the Onceler's Thneed needs to be carefully managed, he just tells the Onceler he's stupid and nobody would buy it.

Pride is what prevent the Onceler from stopping himself. Pride in his work. Pride in his dream. Pride in his company. Pride in himself. It's why the Onceler starts being less and less rational in each encounter with the Onceler, because his Pride is getting the better of him

Even the fucking original song "Biggering" understood the core theme, which was why the Lorax calls out the Onceler for trying to act like he's just "greedy"

>Why didn't he just replant the trees after chopping them down?

Unfortunately truffula trees are dioecious and they cut down all of the male trees first.

His evil mother was manipulating him into doing things in the laziest way possible.
That's why he cuts them down instead of picking them.

>tfw we will never get a version of the Lorax with "Biggering"
>We will live forever with the "ironic" trash that was used to sell Mazdas

"It takes 10 months for a Trufula seed to germinate. It takes 10 long years before the seed grows into a sapling. It takes 10 more years-"

Short-sighted and greedy.

It's just liberals, socialists, and wannabe commies twisting the message to be about THEIR pov.

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>The point of the BOOK and not the fucking shitty movie (which is fucking awful) is a lot of businesses really ARE that retarded because a few people that happen to work within them, they only care how much money they make in THIS QUARTER even if everything is fucked to hell forever next quarter.

Ironically enough, in real life, the logging industry is usually pretty good about replacing the trees they cut down. It's the subsistence farmers you have to watch out for, as they get rid of the trees to make room for their farmland,(be it a brand new plot they're starting out in, or an expansion to their existing farm) and generally don't bother to replant the seeds anywhere else.