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Reading http://www.vox.com/2014/4/8/5592198/the-short-guide-to-capital-in-the-21st-century made me feel A) good, because it reaffirmed my assumptions and B) sad, very sad, because it probably won't do any good and C) even more sad because one of the blog author's other suggestions is to increase population growth rate to combat the issue.
Maybe, just maybe, the whole system of money doesn't make sense (where "make sense" == will allow us to make rational decisions that take into account the future of a healthy world).
That plus
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/04/08/rich-people-rule/ (or you may have only seen the BB: http://boingboing.net/2014/04/13/study-american-policy-exclusi.html) make me slightly depressed.
Maybe, just maybe, the whole system of money doesn't make sense (where "make sense" == will allow us to make rational decisions that take into account the future of a healthy world).
That plus
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/04/08/rich-people-rule/ (or you may have only seen the BB: http://boingboing.net/2014/04/13/study-american-policy-exclusi.html) make me slightly depressed.
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Remember that most of the developed world has unsustainable (shrinking) populations.
If we could figure out a way to stimulate some level of population growth, that wouldn't be a bad thing. Or, at least, stimulate things so we have roughly stable populations.
If we could figure out a way to stimulate some level of population growth, that wouldn't be a bad thing. Or, at least, stimulate things so we have roughly stable populations.
That Vox link is a much better summary than Krugman's book review. Those are some sobering observations about important issues. Meanwhile I'm going to keep working to help create the world I would like to see. :) (I realize that is a vague feel good statement. It's what keeps me going.)
I agree with Yglesias more often than not and this is a good bias confirmer. Also first time I've read all the way through a Vox article/explainer, think I like the format, apart from being proprietary...
The only deep problem I have with it is it takes national jurisdictions as the sole unit of analysis.
Which brings us to population growth. World population will probably increase by about 2 billion in the next 20 years.
The only deep problem I have with it is it takes national jurisdictions as the sole unit of analysis.
Which brings us to population growth. World population will probably increase by about 2 billion in the next 20 years.
Mike Linksvayer at 2014-04-16T15:41:06Z
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