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The thing is: Growth is the driver for increased efficiency and that is the driver for any kind of progress. Progress does not just happen out of thin air when
by choeger 3y ago
The thing is: Growth is the driver for increased efficiency and that is the driver for any kind of progress.
Progress does not just happen out of thin air when a bold mind in their ivory tower has a great insight. Progress requires (wo-)manpower. And that power in turn needs to be freed from more mundane tasks.
In other words: We, as a society, don't want Apple to become ever bigger and make ever bigger profits. We want them to continue making MacBooks and to need fewer and fewer people to make them. Because we want these people to cure cancer or drive spaceships to the outer system or develop artificial meat.
Unfortunately, this simply won't happen if we take out the unsatisfiable desire for more, more, more.
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- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoYou don't think it's possible to harness the desire for more of certain things and less of certain other things in a similar way? We collectively create the expectations under which "growth" is a meaningful thing for a company to do. We can change those expectations such that "number go up" for the company translates to more of the particular thing we want and less of the particular thing we don't. We just need a bit of incentive redesign.
- jimbokun 3y agoThis is how it already works. We translate our desires for particular things and not others, by what we purchase or don't purchase.
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoNot purchasing something is a pretty paltry way of communicating our "demand" that it not be manufactured in a harmful way. Maybe I wouldn't have bought it anyway, I should still be able to demand that it not poison my water. It's like we have the upvotes figured out but are lacking the downvote feature.
- jimbokun 3y agoIt’s the role of government to enforce environmental regulations.