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Re:After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat by gascan on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @01:01PM (#16476074)
Growth doesn't seem to be a prerequisite for capitalism. Rather, it's a shortcut, a cheat, that hides or forestalls your sins and indiscretions.

Picture a MLM or Ponzi scheme- as long as growth is maintained, the problems can be swept under the rug, and you don't have to go to the trouble of running a sound business.

(I'm not calling capitalism a Ponzi scheme, it's just a good illustration)

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Re:After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat by dredmorbius on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @03:29PM (#16486528)
John Kenneth Galbraith introduces the idea of the "bezzle" in The Great Crash: 1929. That's the apparent increase in monetary wealth created by ... "creative accounting" and/or other means.
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