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     6 years ago  

    There is so much good information in the article! I wish more people would take the time to read stuff like this and have a better understanding of what is going on in our country. I honestly feel like half of the reason we end up in so much economic trouble is because no one ever pays attention, they just listen to whatever the politicians say and then they just repeat whatever garbage they hear.

    Ugh, sheeple piss me off! Enough said...

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     6 years ago  

    Thanks so much @moderndayhippie :-) I really appreciate the kind words and that you took the time to read my post :-)

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       5 years ago (edited) 

      This has never been true, but we've been raised and indoctrinated to believe that GDP, stock market and unemployment are valid metrics to gauge a population's actual well-being.

      You think it would be better to have a decreasing GDP, a falling stock market (remember what happens when the market falls too hard? do you think people enjoyed their lives in 1929 or 2008?) and a high unemployment? this is a simple question so just answer yes or no.

      The future vision of all science- and technology conventions back in the 1950s and 1960s was one in which the human race was set free by scientific and technological progress

      Being free doesn't mean people don't have to be productive themselves, it means they have more options which is exactly the case.

      Progress should mean that less work is necessary to do everything that's necessary to maintain a certain level of well-being. Not wealth, but well-being.

      People have better lives today than in the past thanks to technology, The level of well being changes for the best as time goes on and to keep up with it they people need to stay productive. If a person wanted to live as someone from 100 years ago this person wouldn't need to work too much...

      I hope you can see how an economy that wants to double its size in just 35 years, quadruple in 70 years, and so on, can never lead to any kind of stability

      have in mind that better technology and a higher population will naturally result in more productive and a bigger economy. It is normal to have the economies growing when tech constantly gets better and the population is increasing.

      Would you prefer to have the economy getting smaller?

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