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> Most Americans could drop their consumption by 75% What would be the impact on overall income and employment rates? > improving their lives How could it be
by rodolphoarruda 7y ago
> Most Americans could drop their consumption by 75%
What would be the impact on overall income and employment rates?
> improving their lives
How could it be done with less income and less employment?
I'm asking honestly because I see this as a huge social-economic challenge.
- adamsea 7y agoImho both would improve because of the change and innovation required. New technologies, new service industries (“decluttering consultant”, maybe). Plus of course what good does income do if the world around you is shit? Air quality, water quality, etc, should be baked into our economic models. Income and employment age currently incomplete measures of health, happiness, and well-being — of which they are supposed to be indicators for.