GDP measures everything but what makes life worthwhile.
Infinite economic expansion is as impossible as it is dangerous.
yellow fever wrote:
GDP measures everything but what makes life worthwhile.
Infinite economic expansion is as impossible as it is dangerous.
Says the guy who has benefited hugely from what has come so far. What gives you the right to say "This far, no further" when half the world is still starving? Yet another reason liberals are the true racists.
Glad to see that my tax dollars (cash for clunkers) helped another economy. Wouldn't it be odd if American tax money helped Americans only? That would be a strange world to live in...
Easy for them, they own most the world's gold and hard cash. The BoJ is the super bank doleing out food stamps to the Fed, China, and to every country.
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[. What gives you the right to say "This far, no further" when half the world is still starving?
How about the biophysical limits of the earth? Humankind, today, has already exceeded the regeneration capacity of the earth--that is, we consume about 1.5 years' worth of resources every year. In addition, the waste we produce in the process of production and consumption inhibits the earth's ability to regenerate in the first place.
It is impossible for every human to consume at the level of the US and western europe. We all must reduce our standard of living if we are to survive.
Listen, my dear simpleton: when you are riding a train and see that the tracks end in a mile, you don't say, "full steam ahead, a billion chinese and a billion indians want to have the same fun ride whitey has been having for 100 years."
you slow down, acknowledge that the high speed period was an unsustainable anomaly that will never be experienced again, and hope that by forcing EVERYONE to go slower, we can buy enough time to build more track for the future.
The alternative you are proposing (deny everything, keep the party going, stick your head in the sand, etc.) results in high speed right up to the moment of catastrophic death.
yellow fever wrote:
.. wrote:[. What gives you the right to say "This far, no further" when half the world is still starving?
How about the biophysical limits of the earth? Humankind, today, has already exceeded the regeneration capacity of the earth--that is, we consume about 1.5 years' worth of resources every year. In addition, the waste we produce in the process of production and consumption inhibits the earth's ability to regenerate in the first place.
It is impossible for every human to consume at the level of the US and western europe. We all must reduce our standard of living if we are to survive.
Listen, my dear simpleton: when you are riding a train and see that the tracks end in a mile, you don't say, "full steam ahead, a billion chinese and a billion indians want to have the same fun ride whitey has been having for 100 years."
you slow down, acknowledge that the high speed period was an unsustainable anomaly that will never be experienced again, and hope that by forcing EVERYONE to go slower, we can buy enough time to build more track for the future.
The alternative you are proposing (deny everything, keep the party going, stick your head in the sand, etc.) results in high speed right up to the moment of catastrophic death.
I think what you meant to say is "We all must reduce our standard of living if the bottom half is to survive."
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but let's have some accuracy here.
yellow fever wrote:
GDP measures everything but what makes life worthwhile.
Infinite economic expansion is as impossible as it is dangerous.
thats the gayest shit i ever heard
Japanese companies are infamous for underreporting sales and revenues to avoid the very high taxes of a Social Welfare State. Many huge overseas Japanese subsidiaries show up as one room offices with 3 paid staffs on the accounts books in Tokyo. History supports the rift, as the winners of the 1860's Meiji Restoration formed the new government in Tokyo under the Emperor, while the losers were left as outsiders and had to form corporations, trading companies, etc. I.E. the losers of the civil war were left in the cold to fend for themselves.
that's huge goodness. banzai for everyone.