In rich, industrialised countries, the seasons have virtually disappeared, anything is available at any time. Capitalism has, historically, presented a parallel structure in time to that of Indo-European societies and their castes in space. First came the domination of agricultural capital with wealth in the hands of landowners. Today, land is depleted, forests are razed, aquifers are dried up and this devastation is counted not as the destruction and depletion it is but as income. Environmental, or natural capital is not even dignified by figuring properly our national accounts or in those of the World Bank's projects.
Nature is just there to be used up.
Agricultural capitalists lost out in the 19th century to industrial capitalists who can be compared to the warrior caste. They too are more mobile, they fight, i.e. compete, and those who move fastest also win. These capitalists are of course more modern than the traditional warrior caste in the sense that they fight in all seasons, not just summer. But industrial capital is also to some degree archaic in so far as it cannot turn a profit unless it stays put somewhere for a while. Industrial capital can be removed from one place and reinvested in another, but not instantaneously.