Degrowth, deep adaptation, and skills shortages.
A long 5 part article by Bill Mitchell - Modern Monetary Theory.
By cutting government spending in education and training etc and increasing unemployment, in a mindless effort to ‘save’ up money to deal with the projected rising costs of the aging population, the government actually undermines the future.
/nosanitize
(These papers are important)
No really read these.
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"One of the arguments I made among many supporting my disdain for market solutions rested on my contention that there are non-linerarities in biological systems.
Markets are insensitive to biological systems.
The mainstream economics approach is that you can pay for pollution through more growth. That is, we have to generate wealth before we can clean the place up."