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mbperrin

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10. Start considering "growth" meaning simply bigger, as a cancer.

Reply to GliderGuider (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 8, 2012, 09:49 PM

Mar 2012

That's why all empires fall, not to rise again.

Greece, Egypt, Rome, England, France, Holland, all had their moments. No more.

Growth for growth's sake consumes more than it produces, eventually hollowing out everything with it.

Interest and the non-productive spending of war killed all of those empires, as it will the current American one. We'll be better off without all that exceptionalism, anyway, in terms of our souls.

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Xpost from E&E: To what degree can the unfolding planetary catastrophe be blamed on interest? [View all] GliderGuider Mar 2012 OP

How else would you get the funds to buy a house or car? dkf Mar 2012 #1

I agree. How do we keep from killing the planet in the process? GliderGuider Mar 2012 #3

Why do we need a business that needs a billion dollar expansion? mbperrin Mar 2012 #9

WE don't. THEY do. GliderGuider Mar 2012 #13

Yep. My eyes were opened when I worked in management for banks for 10 years from 1968-1978. mbperrin Mar 2012 #16

If you want to maintain large, technologically advanced countries like the US NickB79 Mar 2012 #17

Individuals do all the work in the world. mbperrin Mar 2012 #20

For most of history, people built their own houses and barns. mbperrin Mar 2012 #8

We aren't allowed to do our own electrical work nowadays much less build our own house. dkf Mar 2012 #11

People build houses, not space aliens. mbperrin Mar 2012 #14

Amish building practices aren't really comparable NickB79 Mar 2012 #18

Why would anyone ever use such crap as vinyl siding? Ugly, drafty, poison. mbperrin Mar 2012 #19

I have long thought this to be the case. RevStPatrick Mar 2012 #2

Those of us who had parents who survived the Depression Warpy Mar 2012 #6

I disagree with your thesis Yo_Mama Mar 2012 #4

How does extending your view back to the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries change the picture? GliderGuider Mar 2012 #5

Well, yes, my perspective does Yo_Mama Mar 2012 #7

Start considering "growth" meaning simply bigger, as a cancer. mbperrin Mar 2012 #10

Yes, exactly. Except that this time we're not hollowing out the empire, but the planet. GliderGuider Mar 2012 #12

Yes, technology has allowed the damage to be greatly multiplied. mbperrin Mar 2012 #15