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“I imagine the growth-based economy beet-faced, with clenched, pounding fists, demanding more, faster, and now. A bottomless pit for a stomach, it eats with an insatiable appetite anything and everything within reach. This machine has grown so massive and powerful, I’m uncertain if it belongs to us, or if we belong to it.” – Nikayla Jefferson
Every word of this.
@aral Thank you for sharing this.
The GDP growth monster has the potential and the unthinking, uncaring will, to devour us and everything on this planet.
Time to change "the system".
@aral Yeah the irony of the pending human semi-extinction is that it is self curing for so many of our current problems. Far less people emit far less carbon dioxide. Far less people use so much less water and food. People are more peaceful and coexist better if not all crammed in like sardines. Growth based economy has always been one of greed not common sense.
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Growth is not a fairy tale, it is an imperative. The full imperative is: Grow Or Die.
...“No two desks. One desk. One chairman's desk. One.
The arrangement is changing...was changed. As a matter of fact, there is no arrangement.” - Willie Bank, via Al Pacino in Oceans Thirteen, explaining to his former partner that he is a former partner.