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Yet the fairy tale that growth not only can continue indefinitely but continually accelerate has to be kept up. It's almost as though word “enough” has been ba

Yet the fairy tale that growth not only can continue indefinitely but continually accelerate has to be kept up. It's almost as though word “enough” has been banned from economy altogether.

andrekandre 1y ago
> It's almost as though word “enough” has been banned from economy altogether. without growth people will start to notice all the wealth is accruing at the top; its hard to justify such a system if average people aren't getting better while working more and more
Nasrudith 1y ago
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- coldtea 1y ago
  >You clearly don't understand what growth is and think it is just more of existing things. Or understand just how dysfunctional things would have to be for stasis to occur. Developing new drugs is growth. And yet compared to a couple decades ago we have declining infant mortality and life expectancy, record low for life satisfaction metrics, demographic collapse, climate catastrophes piling up, enshittification, but yay! growth! You know what else is called a "growth"?
- dang 1y ago
  > You clearly don't understand Could you please stop being aggressive with other users in comments here? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly, and it's very much against the site rules. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Edit: this has unfortunately been a problem for quite a while: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44697685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44697685 (July 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42955972 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42955972 (Feb 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24498260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24498260 (Sept 2020) We ban accounts that keep doing this and won't stop when we ask them, so it would be really good if you'd fix this.

Yet the fairy tale that growth not only can continue indefinitely but continually accelerate has to be kept up. It's almost as though word “enough” has been banned from economy altogether.

andrekandre 1y ago

> It's almost as though word “enough” has been banned from economy altogether. without growth people will start to notice all the wealth is accruing at the top; its hard to justify such a system if average people aren't getting better while working more and more

Nasrudith 1y ago

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coldtea 1y ago
>You clearly don't understand what growth is and think it is just more of existing things. Or understand just how dysfunctional things would have to be for stasis to occur. Developing new drugs is growth. And yet compared to a couple decades ago we have declining infant mortality and life expectancy, record low for life satisfaction metrics, demographic collapse, climate catastrophes piling up, enshittification, but yay! growth! You know what else is called a "growth"?
dang 1y ago
> You clearly don't understand Could you please stop being aggressive with other users in comments here? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly, and it's very much against the site rules. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Edit: this has unfortunately been a problem for quite a while: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44697685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44697685 (July 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42955972 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42955972 (Feb 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24498260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24498260 (Sept 2020) We ban accounts that keep doing this and won't stop when we ask them, so it would be really good if you'd fix this.