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Not for the economy.
by marsrover 5y ago
Not for the economy.
- rad_gruchalski 5y agoNot for the constant growth oriented economy.
- enlyth 5y agoIndeed. Imagine having to lower real estate prices because demand falls. Fossil fuel use going down, less useless crap produced for less people, less pollution. Having to raise wages because of less unskilled labour available. Sounds like a nightmare (for some).
- Camas 5y agoIn reality you'd just get a situation similar to Japan.
- path2power 5y agoThis is the future of most nations. A notable exception being the US, which will not have a demographic inversion in the 21st century.
- throwaway316943 5y agoMy counter argument is that humans are more wasteful when faced with abundance. Look at what we did when we discovered two continents worth of land. When perceived costs are low, waste is high.
- marsrover 5y agoThis is the only worthwhile reply to my comment.
- happytoexplain 5y agoWhy throw out such a broad insult with no other thoughts? Not only are you dismissing multiple replies at once without elaborating at all on the reasons, you're also creating the impression for future readers that you are dismissing any future replies to your comment. And why even bother, if you feel that "this place is pathetic. pseudo-intellectualism and autism run rampant" (according to your profile)?
- marsrover 5y agoI think everybody has their own breaking points but mine was today. If I hadn't of spent so much of my life here I probably would have just left and been done with it.
- happytoexplain 5y agoThat sounds like how I feel about 4chan! But I haven't quite reached my breaking point yet.
- mulmen 5y agoAre you ok? I don’t know you but your recent comments are hostile and I assume abnormal. Please seek professional help outside HN. I don’t mean this in an insulting way, there is no shame in asking for help, but the internet is a bad place to get it.
- marsrover 5y agoI appreciate your concern but my behavior is pretty consistent with what it always has been.
- ragebol 5y agoThe economy is there to the benefit of the people in it, not the other way around. An ever-increasing number of people on this fixed sized planet is simply unsustainable. If we can live with less people who are happier, what's not to like?
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- happytoexplain 5y agoIt certainly seems like it would be a good thing for the economy, if you define "the economy" as how well all the humans are doing, as opposed to just absolute GDP and how wealthy the wealthy are.