Growth

The obsession with growth is what will doom are future. Those are harsh words, but in the long term, everybody is dead...to quote a famous economist and not use quotes at the same time. The real question is how do we want the world to die? I would prefer we delay it a little by being smart.

My ultimate goal, I may have said it before, is to understand a zero-growth economy. I often confuse myself when trying to expand upon this concept, and am confused now, but wil try. A develeped economy with little real estate to grow with an a shrinking population has to create a situation where it grows even more, in order to compensate for the shrinking pop. In the end that is consuming more resources and a losing battle is being waged. A balance must be sought where production is renewable and finances are stable so increasing tax revenues are not needed. When it comes down to it, almost every single govt. has the ever increasing cost of debt to address as their populations mature.

You need to balance inputs and outputs while maintaining a standard of living. The question is, can this be done without a general paradigm shift in what it means to be alive? Different things need to be valued. The wage disparaities that are increasing everyday need to be reduced/eliminated. I am not preaching communism, though I am probably approaching socialism. The difference is that it can not be something imposed, it has to be embraced. The sense of community, the respect for man (human), and what is beyond/around man. I have often heard people say "I don't care what I leave for tomorrow, let them deal with this ***." and am like "what?" That don't make sense. But it does, tragically so. There is no pleasure in protecting and appreciating. There is pleasure in consumption and possession.

Unfortunately, the nature of the current economic system yields a situation where there is little value to be found in work and people consequently turn to satisfying there own desires. Dmanit, but where is the balance....I don't know

Sorry, I exhausted myself