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> overnment papers to stop printing, inefficiencies to solve, there's economic growth possible.

You’ve got it backwards!

If everyone is very efficient, houses are perfectly insulated and everyone replaces SUVs with bicycles, and has huge savings in the bank

GDP of the country actually goes DOWN in that scenario

Anyhow, the main point stands - if Growth is Zero, economy should be stable, not collapsing. The system should not behave like a drug addict



If growth is zero then you literally end up with a zero sum game where each person can only grow his pie by taking from someone else.


depends on prices!

if a community values bikes more than SUVs GDP can still go up.

also it depends on the SUV, are people ditching a 20 year old thing for electric bikes or ...?

hedonistic adjustments are notoriously difficult in these calculations, but also necessary.




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