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You cannot not have growth at all cost if you want to survive. Technology is a natural part of evolution and if you do not adapt to that you will not survive.
by ThomPete 8y ago
You cannot not have growth at all cost if you want to survive.
Technology is a natural part of evolution and if you do not adapt to that you will not survive.
What you can have is growth with a less negative impact which will be incentivized by growth. But you can't suddenly stop growth and expect the results to be positive and the only reason you can even think about it being possible today is that you are piggybacking on what growth made possible.
- ripsawridge 8y agoI would just ask you to imagine the world you are going to get if you think "growth at all cost" is what is necessary to survive. Won't it eventually be a world in which it's no longer possible to grow? I'm definitely piggybacking on what growth made possible. I wouldn't have been born otherwise. But I can still see a shitty situation and call it what it is. Finally, technology is tool-making. We make tools to improve our lives. However, some tools grow too large and come to dominate us. At some point continually "adapting" to outsized tools becomes a fools game.
- ThomPete 8y agoI would agree with you if by "growth at all cost", optimization wasn't part of the equation but it is and thus we are constantly becoming more effective. And yes it might be that we grow ourselves into extinction as a species if we can't optimize enough but there is a reason why people flee places that don't have growth and look for places that do.