NSmolenskiFan on Nostr: Technological innovation is what enables greater productivity and growth from limited ...
Technological innovation is what enables greater productivity and growth from limited (scarce) “material and energy throughput.”
The de-growth movement has no concept of innovation. Which is baffling, because the prosperity of their societies—the fact that they themselves are not dying from malnutrition, preventable diseases, or childbirth, but are able to write books about “degrowth”—is entirely a function of the raised floor created for them by centuries of technological innovation.
The de-growth movement has no concept of innovation. Which is baffling, because the prosperity of their societies—the fact that they themselves are not dying from malnutrition, preventable diseases, or childbirth, but are able to write books about “degrowth”—is entirely a function of the raised floor created for them by centuries of technological innovation.