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If you acknowledge the negative effects of potential growth, do you also see the upsides of it? Exponential growth in smart people working on solutions for exa

If you acknowledge the negative effects of potential growth, do you also see the upsides of it? Exponential growth in smart people working on solutions for example. 1 year ago no one assumed that we would have 4 working vaccines already deployed to millions of people.

titzer 6y ago
I am told day-in and day-out about how awesome this exponential growth thing is. Month after month, year after year, they just keep stuffing this exponential growth right up my in face without me even asking for it. Exponential growth has got the entirety of the world's mindshare behind it. It's not enough to just constantly scramble everything and revolutionize everything, and eat everything up. Ya can't even utter a word against it; everyone must bend a knee to it. It's the only model that anyone seems to be able to think of. "Circle the wagons, someone criticized it!" The reality is that we get nothing but exponential growth, and promises of more exponential growth. It's the only future we see now. It's the only answer have to any kind of problem. What are we going to do about all this debt? Exponential growth. What are we going to do about retirement? Exponential growth. What are we going to do about the climate? Exponential growth. How are we going to feed our exponential growth? More exponential growth. We're addicted to exponential growth mindset and we are now incapable of imagining anything else. No, I don't need to constantly mouth platitudes about the upsides of it, not anymore. Not after the rivers and fields I frequented as a kid are choked with garbage and plowed under for subdivisions. But oh yeah, exponential growth. Everybody loves it. Can't say a word against it. Like a watermelon growing in a lightbulb. This exponential growth thing isn't gonna work out in the end, people. But hey, your computer is fast, you little ingrate.

titzer 6y ago

I am told day-in and day-out about how awesome this exponential growth thing is. Month after month, year after year, they just keep stuffing this exponential growth right up my in face without me even asking for it. Exponential growth has got the entirety of the world's mindshare behind it. It's not enough to just constantly scramble everything and revolutionize everything, and eat everything up. Ya can't even utter a word against it; everyone must bend a knee to it. It's the only model that anyone seems to be able to think of. "Circle the wagons, someone criticized it!" The reality is that we get nothing but exponential growth, and promises of more exponential growth. It's the only future we see now. It's the only answer have to any kind of problem. What are we going to do about all this debt? Exponential growth. What are we going to do about retirement? Exponential growth. What are we going to do about the climate? Exponential growth. How are we going to feed our exponential growth? More exponential growth. We're addicted to exponential growth mindset and we are now incapable of imagining anything else. No, I don't need to constantly mouth platitudes about the upsides of it, not anymore. Not after the rivers and fields I frequented as a kid are choked with garbage and plowed under for subdivisions. But oh yeah, exponential growth. Everybody loves it. Can't say a word against it. Like a watermelon growing in a lightbulb. This exponential growth thing isn't gonna work out in the end, people. But hey, your computer is fast, you little ingrate.