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I think most people don't actually want "growth", they just want a good quality of life for themselves and their family. Unfortunately, most of our economic as
by ForHackernews 9y ago
I think most people don't actually want "growth", they just want a good quality of life for themselves and their family.
Unfortunately, most of our economic assumptions are predicated on the notion that an economy that isn't growing must be stagnating. There hasn't been much work on how to sustain prosperity without growth, i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady-state_economy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady-state_economy