01-21-2020, 11:34 AM
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red herring
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Geographly, heaven. Politically, hell.
Posts: 1,644
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The Tunnel AT The End Of The Light
The Growth Dilemma
https://quillette.com/2020/01/09/the-growth-dilemma/
I read this recently, it scares me.
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For much of the last 70 years, economic growth has lifted the quality of life in Europe, North America, and East Asia, providing social stability after the violent disruptions of World War II. Today, however, many of the world’s most influential leaders, even in the United States, reject the very notion that societies should improve material wealth and boost incomes given what they believe are more important environmental or social equity concerns.
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Many, particularly on the environmental Left, go even further and advocate “de-growth,” essentially urging societies to consciously reduce their economic wealth. America’s for example, would seek to limit long-distance trade entirely in favor of a feudal economy that is “largely self-sufficient in the production of its necessities.”
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