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Sure, but the idea that it's untouchable is absurd. Everything changes. The economy was different last year, in 2010, in 1950 and so on. The country I grew up
by esotericn 7y ago
Sure, but the idea that it's untouchable is absurd.
Everything changes. The economy was different last year, in 2010, in 1950 and so on.
The country I grew up in is very different to the one that exists today.
Change is constant. No-one is talking about burning it down, the idea is more that the exceptional growth of the past few decades has likely overshot what is sustainable.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoI'm not saying it's untouchable, just that it needs to be handled with care. Think of it as doing live repair on a running engine of your airplane, mid-flight. You can do it if you're careful, but if you break it, we all die, and the airplane isn't going to fly anywhere anytime soon. In particular, ideas like "we need to halt economic growth ASAP" I sometimes see in climate change threads are essentially suicidal.
- chiefalchemist 7y ago" the idea is more that the exceptional growth of the past few decades has likely overshot what is sustainable." So you're running for office?, what's your tagline: "Vote for me, because they got it wrong. I'll fix the economy so that relative to expectations it underperforms like I believe it should."? Wall Street with not donate to your campaign. No one will vote for you. I'm not disagreeing with you. Simply pointing out We The People have a history of not supporting such things.