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> If you’re not growing, you’re dying. Isn't this exactly the same Welchian attitude implicitly criticized by the grandparent commenter?
by Majromax 4y ago
> If you’re not growing, you’re dying.
Isn't this exactly the same Welchian attitude implicitly criticized by the grandparent commenter?
- datavirtue 4y agoYou are either getting better or getting worse. Nothing stays the same. --nature
- mushbino 4y agoCapitalism requires constant growth to function. There's no way around that.
- Spooky23 4y agoIt’s related. The US had 200M people in 1970. 330M in 2020. If the number of jobs is about the same, you’re shrinking. You can explain some of that through productivity improvements, but imo the bill was just outsourced away. The fact that we cannot build iPhones anywhere but in a specific region of China tells the story. It’s an incredible achievement - globally the industrialization of China dramatically improved the lot of a billion plus people. But that wasn’t free.