I understand where you're coming from. Growth has worked well for the past 80 years (for some definition of 'well'). I think human contentment should be the ke

I understand where you're coming from. Growth has worked well for the past 80 years (for some definition of 'well'). I think human contentment should be the key metric, not growth though, for all our sake. Growth is an means to an end, right? Otherwise we're just paperclip maximizers. There is of course the question of measuring that. I think there's good evidence to show an excess of wealth (thus power / corruption) in the hands of a small group of people is detrimental to overall contentment. The communist regimes of the 20th century didn't remove this wealth + power disparity between elites and proles and that is why it failed, along with aggressive competitive moves from and towards the U.S. I wonder if green socialism in a circular economy has a hope of working outside of a global hegemony though.