> the countries which have had the least economic growth, and try to say with a straight face that economic growth doesn't make a difference. There is a differ

> the countries which have had the least economic growth, and try to say with a straight face that economic growth doesn't make a difference. There is a difference between economic growth and strangling a county into poverty with sanctions (North Korea) or economic imperialism (Africa and the IMF). That is not economic stabilization. > Obviously in the second one your standard of living is going to be worse, and as a society that's what it likes when the ratio of working to non-working people decreases. You are confusing economic growth with economic stabilization. I am for the latter. The need for economic growth is based ion the need for a profit.