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> we can’t artificially keep doing demonstrably less efficient things Well then it's a good thing adamcstephens didn't suggest that, is it not? > If it become
by jjoonathan 6y ago
> we can’t artificially keep doing demonstrably less efficient things
Well then it's a good thing adamcstephens didn't suggest that, is it not?
> If it becomes a problem then we have to deal with it by finding new avenues
That's the correct approach, but so far the strategy has been a combination of denial (which I hear an echo of in the word "if") and inaction. Protectionism is a dead end, but so are denial and inaction. It's going to get worse before it gets better.
- KptMarchewa 6y ago>so far Since alphabet's invention put ancient egyptian hieroglyph writers out of jobs, we as a society has put up with it just fine.
- jjoonathan 6y agoAfter 50 years of a rising tide failing to float most boats in the US, "putting up with it just fine" wouldn't be my take on the issue.
- KptMarchewa 6y agoYou're just paying the price of rest of the world catching up. Privilege of getting out of World War 2 as the pretty much only major unaffected economy could not be sustained for a century, ya know?