Re:America’s Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs
by coldtea on Thursday October 13, 2016 @09:25AM
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>There's some evidence that democracy is unsustainable without economic growth.
Democracy is how a society chooses to govern itself.
Above a certain point (e.g. when food is so scarce people kill each over for it) it's not about how much money or resources it has.
There have been in ethnography tribes with democratic self-governance that had 1/1000 the resources we have, and no "growth" year over year.
Most measures of economic activity like GDP are measures of the total movement of resources, where such movements are monetized. That is, increasing growth means increasing distribution. (There's no guarantee that the distribution is better, of course.)