Quote:
Originally Posted by Pinion
Haha yeah, and people are the trees. What good is a strong economy if it doesn't benefit people?
That's a pretty horrific analogy.
Perhaps we should have a system that doesn't require infinite growth to be sustainable.
|
Life is pretty unfair and horrific no?
I mean even if you slow or stop growth you simply cant ever stop change as the world we live in is in a constant and unpredictable flux which we have to continually adapt to. Every change no matter how minor allows a poor decision to be made, this poor decision is then built on, and its unavoidable to make other poor decisions which also continue to get built on. It is impossible to catch all these decisions because we cant predict the future, and once their built on top of and woven in to the very fabric of our society or economy they are impossible to fix. Eventually over time all these weaknesses add up and a trigger allows our society or economy or whatever to crumble, disentangle and fall apart.
Once finished and stability is once again achieved we can roar ahead now knowing in retrospect the poor decisions we made and we can avoid them and build a stronger foundation that allows our society or economy to grow even bigger in to uncharted territory.
/rant
Nothing lasts for ever for good reasons. Cant have all your eggs in all baskets, to many baskets and not enough eggs. (e.i we cant predict the future and we cant be prepared for all possible events, and all possible events given enough time do happen)
by the way Pinion im a socialist at heart, if I had my way our society would "resemble" more the communism I to a extent grew up under then the capitalism we have seemed to push towards, even if I dont always practice what i preach, but I try. I think what you really are saying is that we should have more control over our growth and not grow just for the sake of growing, which I agree with.